American Express

Senior Engineering Manager

Posted On

March 6, 2025

Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

April 20, 2025

Job 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 and let's lead the way together.

How will you make an impact in this role?

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 your professional development. Find your place in technology of #TeamAmex.

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 specialised knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives in order 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.

Leadership

People Leader to individual scrum team, including B30 colleagues and contractors, dotted line leadership to B35 colleagues in scrum team(s)
Promote, empower, and practice servant-leadership
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
8+ years of active engineering with 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 Java/J2EE, RESTful API development, Microservices, BPM Tool(Pega, JBPM, Camunda etc).
Experience of working on OneData, ACE workflow and knowledge of Case Management processes and Business rules.
Ability to effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on architecture and solution design
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree.

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.

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