Director - Software Engineering (Mobile App Development)

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.


Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.


We’re looking for a Director – Software Engineering to lead mobile engineering team, and to drive the delivery of new mobile features (iOS and Android) via innovative mobile tools, technology and practices for the American Express Global Mobile App.


You’ll be part of the Mobile Engineering team whose mission is to be essential in our customers’ digital lives by providing value, convenience, and delight wherever they are. You will be responsible for leading a team of mobile engineers building mobile applications that will be used by tens of millions of American Express Customers around the world.


This leader will encompass a unique blend of strong leadership and an in-depth engineering skillset.


Key Responsibilities:

• Work with a team of highly talented mobile engineers to build and deliver the mobile roadmap.
  
• Work with mobile product development closely to understand the product and customer needs; and enable the product and customer vision for the company. 
  
• Contribute to advance the mobile platform to improve developer efficiency. 
  
• Responsible for the people management of a co-located and remote engineering teams.
  
• Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics 
  
• Recruit best in class and diverse mobile talent from the industry. 
  
• Drive innovation within a fast-paced agile environment. 
  
• Collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders within business and technology teams to drive change required to execute product roadmaps.
  
• Coach, guide and promote creation of high quality, clearly documented, and compliant deliverables across engineering teams. 
  
• Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases.
  
  
  

Qualifications: 

• 8+ years of experience in software industry building customer facing products with high performance, availability, and high scalability. Mobile app development and/or leading mobile development team experience will be a huge plus.
  
• Experience managing software engineering teams designing and building software products in a fast-paced, complex and dynamic software development environment. 
  
• Extensive hands-on experience building and managing the development of complex, large scale applications. and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and dependencies.
  
• Experience being a people leader, coaching, mentoring and guiding for highly talented technical teams.
  
• Experience attracting, hiring retaining and leading top engineering talent.
  
• Experience with Agile, Scrum or other rapid application development methodologies is required.
  
• University Degree in computer science, or engineering-related field required.
  
  

 

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.