About the position
With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you'll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that's unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally. At American Express, you'll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact-every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company's success. Together, we'll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world's best customer experience every day. And we'll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong. Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together. As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers' digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.
Responsibilities
- Bring a strong technical foundation; able to engage the team on coding practices, architecture, design, get under the hood of complex integrated architectures, coding systems, and interface design
- Collaborate successfully with product owners, designers, and a broad set of internal Technical partners (across multiple internal groups)
- Ensure product releases are high quality, deliver excellent user experiences, perform seamlessly at scale, and comply with regulatory requirements.
- Partner with peers in technologies to identify opportunities for code sharing, common services, joint development, etc.
- Keep up with the latest industry research and emerging technologies to ensure we are appropriately leveraging new techniques and capabilities.
- Demonstrate accountability while leading people with passion, enthusiasm, loyalty and integrity. Own and lead HR processes such as performance reviews, talent development, etc.
- Flawless interpersonal skills and ability to partner with executive leadership to push Technical solutions forward.
- Recruit top talent with technical skills, growth potential, design sensibility, and emotional intelligence.
- Lead teams in iterative product development using lean principles.
- Build and lead a high-performing, self-managing team of Software Engineers.
- Passion, energy, personal accountability, and a desire to lead others to excellence.
- Build and leverage strong relationships with business and Technology partners.
- Drive strategic change in tools and process.
- Deep appreciation for the importance of elegant solutions to Technical challenges.
- Consistently question assumptions, challenge the status quo, and strive for improvement.
- Never settle for being 'good enough'.
Requirements
- Engineering experience using the following Adobe products - CDP, AJO, CJA & Analytics
- Google Cloud application development experience using data services such as BigQuery and BigTable
- Marketing Technology engineering experience
- Extensive background in Software Product Engineering and Computer Science.
- 10+ years of demonstrable experience building and deploying large scale software products.
- Strong Experience in Agile development, code review, Big Data - Hive, Spark, Python, Google Big Query, Rest API, Performance optimization in Big Data, CSS, HTML, Java, Javascript, React, Spring framework, Redis, Relational database, Cloud computing, UNIX and Web Services.
- Moderate or higher skill in SOA, Restful, Asynchronous and Microservices technologies for large scale environments.
- Strong understanding and experienced in CICD and DevOps
- In depth knowledge of Customer Marketing technology ecosystem and related programs is preferred
- Knowledge of American Express Marketing & Data platforms a plus
- The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to non-technical individuals
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills required, with ability to create and deliver effective presentations to executive leadership and technical architects across the organization is a plus.
- Hands on experience with technology planning and road mapping
- Proven track record to lead problem analysis and resolution
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Information Systems degree or equivalent work experience; Advanced Degree preferred
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
- Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
- 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
