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American Express Engineering Director - Mobile Engineering Team in New York, New York

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You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

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.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

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 #TeamAmex and let’s lead the way together.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in The U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

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The Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.

We’re looking for an Engineering Director to lead mobile engineering team, and to drive the delivery of new mobile features (iOS and Android) via innovative mobile tools, technology and practices for the American Express Global Mobile App.

You’ll be part of the Mobile Engineering team whose mission is to be critical in our customers’ digital lives by providing value, convenience, and delight wherever they are. Your will be responsible for managing a team of mobile engineers building mobile applications that will be used by tens of millions of American Express Customers around the world.

This leader will encompass a unique blend of strong leadership and an in-depth engineering skills.

Responsibilities:

  • Work with a team of very hardworking 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 partners within business and technology teams to inspire 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 implement the development schedule for major product releases

Qualifications:

  • 8 years of experience in software industry building customer facing products with dedication, 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

Qualifications

Salary Range: $170,000.00 to $255,000.00 annually bonus equity (if applicable) benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

  • Competitive base salaries

  • Bonus incentives

  • 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

  • Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

  • Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

  • 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

  • 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .

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.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Job: Technology

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24006936

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