Senior Software Engineer - Global Commercial Services Technology

Senior Software Engineer - Global Commercial Services Technology

Seattle, WA, United States

FL, United States

New York, NY, United States

Phoenix, AZ, United States

WA, United States

Sunrise, FL, United States

(Hybrid)

Job Description

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company's growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex's customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

The Global Commercial Services team at American Express is looking for a seasoned Senior Engineer I 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 next-generation 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• Overall experience: 8+ 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 runtimes such as Node.js, 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 JSON-schema based forms.
• Hands-on experience integrating with AI/ML models to build user-facing recommendation engines.
• Hands-on experience setting up instrumentation, analytics, and monitoring.