Director-Software Engineering
American Express · Posted Sep 30
Banking, credit card, payment network, and travel services
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About the role
The Mobile Engineering team at American Express is responsible for the Global Mobile App, with a mission to be essential in customers' digital lives by providing value, convenience, and delight to tens of millions of customers worldwide. The team builds and advances the iOS and Android mobile platform and mobile tooling. This Director – Software Engineering role leads the mobile engineering team, driving delivery of new mobile features, people management of co-located and remote engineers, and collaboration with product and business stakeholders on the mobile roadmap.
What you will do
- Work with a team of highly talented mobile engineers to build and deliver the mobile roadmap.
- Work with mobile product development closely to understand the product and customer needs; and enable the product and customer vision for the company.
- Contribute to advance the mobile platform to improve developer efficiency.
- Responsible for the people management of a co-located and remote engineering teams.
- Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
- Recruit best in class and diverse mobile talent from the industry.
- Drive innovation within a fast-paced agile environment.
- Collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders within business and technology teams to drive change required to execute product roadmaps.
- Coach, guide and promote creation of high quality, clearly documented, and compliant deliverables across engineering teams.
- Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 8+ years of experience in software industry building customer facing products with high performance, availability, and high scalability. Mobile app development and/or leading mobile development team experience will be a huge plus.
- Experience managing software engineering teams designing and building software products in a fast-paced, complex and dynamic software development environment.
- Extensive hands-on experience building and managing the development of complex, large scale applications. and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and dependencies.
- Experience being a people leader, coaching, mentoring and guiding for highly talented technical teams.
- Experience attracting, hiring retaining and leading top engineering talent.
- Experience with Agile, Scrum or other rapid application development methodologies is required.
- University Degree in computer science, or engineering-related field required.
Benefits and support
- 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
About American Express
American Express Company is a globally recognized multinational financial services corporation specializing in payment cards, travel-related services, and network banking. Founded in 1850, the company provides charge and credit cards, expense management products, and merchant services to consumers, small businesses, and large corporations worldwide. It operates a proprietary payments network known for its premium customer engagement and lifestyle rewards programs.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 76800 employees
- Founded
- 1850-03-18
- Location
- New York City, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President
Chief Colleague Experience Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
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