At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared 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.
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Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible — and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way.
When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day.
American Express is entering into a technology transformation phase driven by opportunities to modernize legacy platforms and explore modern software to be on the leading edge of the payments industry.
American Express is looking for strong leaders to be part of high performing teams that will build and support our next generation platforms.
If you have the talent and passion to drive innovation and deliver at a rapid pace, with deep hands-on experience in areas of real-time, highly available, cloud-native application development, join our engineering teams to transform our systems.
American Express Global Card Network Platform authorizes and processes all the company’s customer card transactions.
The Card Network platform is the critical back bone for all American Express card transactions and is a near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year.
American Express is making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to allow the company to meet its ambitious global growth agenda.
American Express is looking for strong leaders and engineers to be part of high energy and efficient teams that will build and support our next generation card network systems.
Engineering Director
As our Director of Engineering, you will join our global technology team that has embarked on building a highly available and scalable distributed systems on the cloud to support the company's long-term strategy and vision.
Your primary responsibility is to build and support capabilities of our next generation distributed platform, build innovative payment capabilities leveraging the platform, aligning resources and delivery with business growth and diversification, while significantly improving service quality and cost-effectiveness.
We expect the individual to be innovative and energetic with strong communications skills.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Extensive experience in,
Demonstrated proficiency in,
Extensive experience in,
Good understanding of,
Familiar with most of the below tools and frameworks,
Experience with Microservices based architecture and containerizing using Docker
Technical credibility: Experience as a Software Engineer in Test (or similar title)
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively express ideas, engage in complex discussions and collaborate with a wide range of colleagues
Superior analytical, problem solving and planning skills with the desire to continually learn and improve
Self-motivated and able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
Strong relationship building skills and proven ability to influence and drive delivery across a geographical distributed organization with the demonstrated ability to debate ideas/ strategies and be comfortable managing constructive conflict
Strong people leader exhibiting passion, enthusiasm, loyalty and integrity through a servant leadership personification promoting the development of talented, energetic, creative and highly dedicated team members
Preferred Qualifications
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:
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.