Sr. Engineering Manager

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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 lets lead the way together.

The Acquisition Experience team develops and manages critical components and platforms for new products being launched to support the next generation of customers across market segments. Join us and you could be a core part of this future, running software engineering teams developing against platform vision.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for driving the technology roadmap with emphasis on technical KPIs. As a people leader, you will aspire to create an inclusive environment, enabling colleagues in creating successful careers with emphasis to learning and having fun at the same time. You will foster technical ownership and enable engineers to think beyond to nurture innovation and to maximize their professional potential. Your ability to build relationships across the company and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders in shaping the overall product and technical strategy is critical to success in this role.

You would be designing, writing, testing, and delivering features to the production systems. Responsibilities include architectural design, development, styling and deployment of React based web pages on a full stack NodeJS based REST & GraphQL based backend. Our teams implement features and create variant React Tests that are played out on our live pages.

We would expect you to follow the neo-classical scrum agile process with 2 week sprint cycles.

Requirements:

• 10+ year hands on experience in Java, Nodejs, Jest, Mocha, Rest, GraphQL, Express
• 4+ Years working as a people leader doing performance management, Career tracking and strategy execution
• 4+ years track record in React and having abundant knowledge on HTML and CSS to do performance improvements for web and mobile web applications
• Hands on use of Rest, GraphQL, ExpressJS
• Good Communications Skills
• Authored node modules either public or private
• Have worked on projects using typescript
• Understanding of the of lerna monorepos, cloud function services, public cloud would be an advantage
• Have design and documentation capabilities
• Experienced in scalability and engineer large scale, fault tolerant backend systems in JS
• Knowledge CI/CD, system testing, test automation. Experience in infrastructure, application monitoring, platform stabilization and service performance a plus.
• 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.
• Collaborate with a wide variety to stakeholders within business and technology teams to drive change required to execute product roadmaps.

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