American Express

Senior Engineering Manager

Posted On

July 1, 2025

Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

July 20, 2025

Job Description

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

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

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.

Description:

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager that has a solid understanding of JavaScript, NodeJS, ReactJS, and emerging JavaScript frameworks, to lead an agile cross-functional team that values collaboration, automation, and innovation. If you're a JavaScript enthusiast looking to build highly scalable, performant and fault-tolerant applications, come grow your skills as a technical leader at Amex. You will be part of the Card Shop group, which focuses on and strives to provide best in class user experiences to our customers when they shop for American Express products. Your work will be at the frontline of American Express’ commitment to excellence to our customers, and thus highly visible, impactful, and rewarding.

What to Expect:

Lead a team of web engineers and deliver world class web applications using ReactJS and NodeJS on the cloud.
Find opportunities to educate and learn from other mobile & web engineering teams
Align group-wide product owners to define requirements for new features, build product roadmaps and plan increments of work
Manage Tech OKRs and strive to continuously improve the metrics month over month.
Research relevant technologies and form a point of view on the technologies and architectural approaches we take
Whiteboard and socialize changes and system designs in collaboration with architects, tech leads and team members
Provide support to operations teams to troubleshoot and resolve production issues
Recognize and solve for inefficiencies in our development process
Meet regularly with team members to provide feedback on employee performance and coaching for difficult situations
Help engineers develop and implement a personal career development plan Mentor engineers in skills development
Plan process and technology improvement projects and influence other managers and delivery team leads to collaborate on execution
Assist the director to design and complete a hiring plan, including sourcing, screening, and interviewing
Drive innovation within a fast-paced agile environment

Join us if you have:

Solid experience leading and building N-tier Web applications on Cloud environment.
Experience being a people leader, coaching, mentoring and guiding for very hardworking technical teams.
The ability to participate in, and contribute simultaneously to, multiple work streams including planning, logistics, communication, and follow up across a diverse and virtual team
Adaptability to changes in product requirements, organizational structures and business conditions
A strong belief in your personal responsibility for ensuring quality craftsmanship
Experience working in a distributed team model and the ability to collaborate with remote team members.
Solid understanding of agile software development methodologies

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

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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