Senior Engineering Manager
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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.
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. Amex 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 #Team Amex.
How will you make an impact in this role?
We are building MARS – simple abbreviation that stands for Modern Accounts Receivable System, but the name symbolizes the scale and ambition of this effort. This is a gigantic effort to build a brand-new global AR platform that transforms many aspects of work at American Express across technology and business.
We are building the platform using an event driven micro services architecture. Looking to build a brand-new team to contribute to MARS development that augments a globally distributed team of engineers.
This is a dream opportunity for any engineer wanting to be working on cutting edge technology and has enough challenging work to learn, contribute and impress. Our team works in an environment that promotes openness, experimentation, and debates. Winning arguments are always based on logic and never on seniority or title. Come join us to learn, contribute and teach.
Responsibilities:

• Build software as part of a nimble agile Team where you have every opportunity to make an impact on the bottom line and contribute to the architecture.
  
• Lead and mentor engineers, while building next generation technical capabilities for Amex customers
  
• Collaborate with our product team to ensure work coming into the scrum team is well refined and understood by the engineers.
  
• Ensure our infrastructure is safely extensible, scalable, reliable and meets SLAs for both external and internal users.
  
• Support less experienced engineers with their software development work.
  
• Create a brand for our platform composed of amazing APIs, Developer Portal, Tutorials and SDKs.
  
• Ensure our solutions are testable, intuitive, and easy to maintain.
  
• Use state of the art tools for remote collaboration and developer happiness, i.e., Intelli J Code With Me and Tuple
  
• Participate in design and code reviews for key components and cross Enterprise initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Experience in backend reactive programming languages: Java 17+ and/or Kotlin.
  
• Proven track record developing lightweight reactive microservices: Vert.x, Quarkus, Micronaut or Spring Boot.
  
• Experience of working with stakeholders and product owners to refine upcoming Epics.
  
• Deep understanding of event driven architecture and messaging: Kafka, webhooks, asynchronous API design.
  
• Experience with Postgre SQL or equivalent relational databases.
  
• Have experience working as an individual contributor as part of a cross functional agile team. Experience in Fin Tech is a massive plus.
  
• Have proven experience in supporting mission critical platforms with high levels of availability and service continuity.
  
• Have solid experience in cloud-based architecture and distributed systems.
  
• Have exceptional written and communication skills and can express dissenting opinions in a constructive manner.
  
• Self-directed and able to work in an ambiguous environment through the innovation process.
  
• Care about learning and being open minded about switching approaches and experimenting.
  
• Value collaboration and put the Team interests always above self.

Additional Details:

• Location: BGC Corporate Center 2, 5th Avenue corner 30th Street, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig
  
• Workplace Flexibility: Full time. Must be amenable to follow a hybrid work arrangement (onsite and work from home)
  
• Work From Home Requirements:
  
  • Must have at least 25 mbps internet connection plan / speed
    
  • Must have a private & quiet area to work at home
    
• American Express offers a fantastic and diverse working environment. High performance is rewarded with target driven incentives

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 work arrangements and schedules with hybrid and virtual options with Amex Flex
  
• 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

This role is not open to visa sponsorship according to business requirements.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
To know more about our recruitment process, you may watch this short video – What to Expect: Recruitment at American Express