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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.
How will you make an impact in this role?
Senior Director level individual contributor who may lead a small team of Senior Software Engineers and/or Staff Engineers.
Responsibilities:
• 40%~50% of the time spent on coding and/or hands-on technical implementation
• Work with Senior Staff Architects to define solution requirements and perform technical implementation
• leader for both high-level and detailed technical designs and act as lead
• reviewer on design reviews as needed
• Provide technical mentorship to other software engineers at all levels
• Implement new, highly scalable platform components on a large scale
• Improve and optimize existing components of the core platform
• Actively participate in team and company-wide architecture and engineering discussions and forums as a prominent contributor
• Employ technical expertise to help team members overcome technical problems during production outages and solution delivery
• Enforce to release/project schedule and sprint milestones achievements
• Analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software for use in integrated, widescale environments
• Responsible for health and quality of the code across the portfolio, including leadership over SCM, functional testing, and CI/CD tool integration
• This person will be supporting 1-3 Technical Platforms and/or its significant application components.
• Works on complex issues that require an in-depth evaluation of variable factors in highly integrated and interdependent environments.
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)
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.