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American Express Senior Engineering Manager- Golang in Karnataka, India
Description
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.
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’s Global Loyalty and Benefits organization and let's lead the way together.
Global Loyalty and Benefits
Global Loyalty and Benefits powers the Membership Reward points, Amex Offers, Insurance, and Card benefits for 112 million cards in 58 markets worldwide. We create loyalty & benefit experiences for our customers with a team of software, product, engineering, and delivery talent using agile practices to build highly available, nimble, extensible and modern applications. This Position is for Global Loyalty and Benefits Engineering Department.
About the job
We’re looking for versatile engineers who bring fresh ideas, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new engineering problems, they will be working on the modern platform built using event driven architecture with best-in-class technologies (Golang, Docker, Kafka, Postgres etc.,). which is highly scalable and capable of supporting up to 10K TPS. You will be building multiple Reward/Benefit customer experience journeys, you will lead software development team of 8 engineers in Global Loyalty platform
Key Responsibilities:
Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large scale enterprise applications
Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments
Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform
Establish and accepts responsibility for engineering practices across teams for example the code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective
Empower teams to automate demand driven scalable application deployments in test or production environments
Apply specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives to identify complex and or broad problems and issues and formulate recommendations
Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices
People Leader to software engineering team
Drives the team’s technical improvements and roadmap
Takes accountability for the technical maturity of the team
Mentor and guide team members to success; identify strengths and areas for growth in direct reports and guides them to grow in their careers while being more productive on the team
Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
Working with Engineering Director to hire top talent for the team
Minimum Qualifications :
Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred
5 years of experience with software development in a professional environment with Golang or other similar languages
2 years leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience
Successful design, creation and deployment of one or more enterprise-grade technology assets, including integration of cross-platform solutions in an Agile product environment
Experience with agile software development methodologies and practices such as Scrum/Kanban, iterations, user stories
Ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment
Hands on experience with automation testing and documentation (i.e. automated, functional, and performance)
Ability to learn and adapt in a rapidly changing environment.
Adaptable to changes in product requirements, organizational structures and business conditions
Engaged with the broader technology community (e.g. open source, public speaking, technical forums)
Experience leading multiple scrum teams
Experience in continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD) and continuous testing (CT), including tools such as Jenkins, Rally and/or JIRA and version control such as GIT or SVN
Preferred Qualifications:
Introduces new engineering techniques and solutions
Experience writing code with Go
Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods
Experience working on migration from legacy to modern tech stack
Experience working with peers and partners to drive software solutions that align to strategic roadmaps, prioritized initiatives and strategic technology directions, and contributes to engineering best practices across the company
Experience with Coach, guide and promote the creation of high quality, clearly documented, and compliant software across engineering teams
Collaborate within and across business units to design solutions and prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule
Qualifications
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
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
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.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
Job: Technology
Primary Location: India-Karnataka-Bengaluru Urban
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 25005465