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Engineering Director

American Express Company

4.2

based on 3k Reviews

14-20 years

Bangalore / Bengaluru

1 vacancy

Engineering Director

American Express

posted 6hr ago

Job Role Insights

Flexible timing

Key skills for the job

Finance Agile Coaching Application Development Scrum Application Monitoring Product Engineering

+ 2 more

Job Description

To lead the evolution of next generation distributed platforms, aligning resources and delivery with business growth and diversification, while significantly improving product quality and cost-effectiveness. We expect the individual to be innovative and energetic with strong communications skills and a team player.

Responsibilities :

Drive innovation and manage product development teams within a fast paced, agile environment.
Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.
Identify and implement strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce.
Manage and/or lead software development teams, obtaining necessary resources, acting as an escalation point and removing impediments to achieve goals and objectives.
Engage in hands-on design and ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods with software engineers and architects to execute product roadmaps.
Collaborate with a wide variety to stakeholders within business and technology teams to drive change required to execute product roadmaps.
Enable integrated teams to deliver technology solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product managers, technical project managers, architects, engineers, and quality assurance.
Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases.
Communicate to senior leaders regarding strategy direction and changes.
Work with a Node and React JS stack to build user experiences and Java to build business services, using American Express frameworks and cloud platform.
bachelors degree in computer sciences or related experience with advanced degree preferred
13+ years of experience managing agile software engineering teams designing and building software products in a fast paced, complex, and dynamic product development environment.
A Full-stack expert having expertise in building web applications revolving around technology stacks like Javascript, React JS, Node JS, Java, ES6, Kafka, Redis etc Also, in-depth knowledge on Application design, Testing capabilities, Design & building Microservices.
Extensive hands-on experience building distributed applications and managing the development of complex, large scale enterprise applications and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and dependencies.
Experience managing large engineering teams using a servant leadership mindset.
Proven experience attracting, hiring retaining and leading top engineering talent and high-performance product engineering teams (ie, Full Time Employees, not partners/contractors).
Experience with Scrum, Kanban, or another Agile application development methodology.
Proven ability to influence decision-making at all levels within an organization, and in a variety of contexts.
Knowledge of GenAI driven automation, Agentic system implementations and orchestration frameworks, LLM integrations with GPT, Vector databases and RAG implementations
Knowledge CI/CD, system testing, test automation. Experience in infrastructure, application monitoring, platform stabilization and service performance a plus.

Benefits include:

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

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

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What people at American Express are saying

2.4

Rating based on 2 Director Engineering reviews

Anonymous · Engineering - Software & QA in Bangalore / Bengaluru

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Mostly, we work on cutting edge technology

Dislikes

I dislike toxic managers like Vikas Malhotra - who promotes only favoritism. He tends to recognize colleagues based on personal preferences rather than their talents and capabilities. He promotes only those who praise him, while the rest of us suffer under his leadership. This environment is not conducive to growth or collaboration, and I believe it impacts team morale negatively.