Sr Mgr-Software Engineering

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior leader within an Agile team, driving consistent engineering practices, standardization of tools, reusable components, and quality documentation.
• Partner with Product Owners to analyze business requirements, refine user stories, and ensure technical feasibility and alignment with strategic goals.
• Collaborate with Product and Architecture teams to prioritize features, manage technical backlogs, and incorporate emerging technologies, industry trends, and known issue resolutions.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across the software development lifecycle — including architecture, design, prototyping, coding, API development, and unit/integration testing.
• Work closely with technical architects and governance teams to review and validate solution designs, ensuring adherence to enterprise architecture standards.
• Lead integration and performance testing efforts, and present outcomes to technical and product stakeholders through demonstrations and reviews.
• Conduct peer code reviews and champion best practices in design, coding standards, and technical debt reduction.
• Oversee deployment, monitoring, and support of applications across test, integration, and production environments, ensuring stability, scalability, and performance.
• Collaborate with Product Owners on long-term roadmap planning, ensuring cohesive feature delivery across multiple platforms and products.
• Mentor and coach junior developers, providing technical guidance, career development support, and constructive feedback to build strong, high-performing teams.
• Foster a collaborative and growth-oriented culture, encouraging knowledge sharing, skill enhancement, and continuous learning within the engineering organization.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and business partners, translating technical solutions into business outcomes and ensuring alignment throughout the delivery process.
• Proactively identify and adopt new technologies and best practices that enhance performance, security, and maintainability.
• Inspire innovation and creativity by encouraging experimentation and calculated risk-taking, driving continuous improvement across teams and platforms.

Qualifications & Experience:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in software development, with at least 5+ years in Java and Big Data technologies.
• Proven expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining large-scale, data-intensive ETL applications.
• Strong hands-on experience with PySpark, Relational (e.g., Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB).
• Skilled in RESTful API design, development, and integration.
• Practical experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as JUnit, TestNG, Jenkins, Git, and Mocking frameworks.
• Deep understanding of data management principles, data modeling, and performance optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex problems, define scalable solutions, and deliver in incremental, agile iterations.
• Strong foundation in object-oriented design and programming, with proficiency across multiple languages and familiarity with complex data structures.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.