Staff Software Engineer
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At American Expressourcultureisbuilton a 175-yearhistoryofinnovationsharedvaluesand LeadershipBehaviors and anunwaveringcommitmenttobackourcustomerscommunities andcolleagues. AspartofTeam Amexyoullexperiencethispowerfulbackingwithcomprehensivesupportforyourholisticwell-beingandmanyopportunitiestolearnnewskillsdevelopasaleader andgrowyourcareer.
Hereyourvoiceandideasmatteryourworkmakesanimpact andtogetheryouwillhelpusdefinethefutureofAmerican Express.
The Global Commercial Services team at American Express is looking for a seasoned Staff Engineer with extensive full-stack development expertise a strategic product management mindset and a proven history of successfully leading and mentoring software engineering teams. This role will be pivotal in shaping and building our nextgeneration expense management platform designed to provide actionable insights into business spending for our Small and Medium-sized (SMS) businesses and Corporate customers. We aim to deliver an innovative scalable and highly integrated expenses solution that transforms business spending into a seamless insightful experience.
How will you make an impact in this role
- Play a critical role in the design development and deployment of our next generation expense management solution.
Collaborate closely with product managers designers and stakeholders to refine and shape product requirements ensuring clarity and readiness for engineering. - Mentor and guide feature teams fostering effective collaboration within the team across guild teams and with other cross-functional project teams.
- Develop robust platform services utilizing domain-driven design and hexagonal architecture.
Identify evaluate recommend and integrate SaaS PaaS and IaaS solutions to efficiently achieve both functional and non-functional objectives. - Participate in and facilitate Request-for-Comment (RFC) processes and proof-of concept (POC) activities.
- Integrate analytics and instrumentation toolchains into application development workflows.
- Measure monitor and enhance application performance scalability and resilience.
- Actively contribute to establishing and maintaining team coding standards and system design conventions.
- Employ the Linear method to effectively guide the Software Development Lifecycle of the team.
- Plan estimate delegate and oversee task execution to ensure milestone goals are met on time proactively addressing risks and resolving blockers.
- Regularly demonstrate both individual and team milestone achievements and progress to the product team and stakeholders.
- Gather analyze and incorporate stakeholder feedback to continuously improve the product and refine software engineering practices.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Overall experience: 10 years of experience in software engineering and product development in individual contributor as well as leadership roles.
- Education: Bachelor of Science or Engineering specializing in Information Technology Computer Science or Software Engineering disciplines.
- Experience in full-stack development including mobile apps web UI middleware platform services and infrastructure as code.
- Professional certifications in software engineering architecture or product management.
- At least 5 years of experience building mentoring and managing high-performance distributed engineering teams.
- At least 5 years of experience in Frontend technologies for web including Typescript and frameworks such as React Angular or Ruby on Rails.
- At least 5 years of experience in Backend and general-purpose programming languages and run-times such as Python Ruby and Go.
- At least 2 years of experience with Mobile app development either with cross platform technologies such as React Native Cordova Ionic or native app development.
- At least 2 years of experience showcasing deep engagement with product management and UX design teams.
- Hands-on experience with cloud services for application development such as AWS Lambdas S3 API Gateway SQS ECS RDS etc.
- Hands-on experience with multiple storage technologies including RDBMS Graph databases document stores search indices and OLAP databases.
- Hands-on experience integrating Postgres-compatible distributed databases such as CockroachDB.
- Hands-on experience integrating with workflow engines orchestration engines or durable-execution technologies such as Camunda and Temporal.
- Hands-on experience developing data-driven UI and dynamic forms such as JSONschema based forms.
- Hands-on experience integrating with AI/ML models to build user-facing recommendation engines.
- Hands-on experience setting up instrumentation analyzing performance distributed tracing and debugging with Datadog or similar instrumentation technologies.
- Hands-on experience developing improving and testing application code towards industry-standard specifications or to meet compliance requirements.
- Entrepreneurial experience in software engineering and product development is valuable.
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:
- 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
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check subject to applicable laws and regulations.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
