Manager, Software Engineering

Responsibilities
Manages and leads a team of Software Engineering colleagues, enabling a culture of continuous learning, growth opportunities, and inclusivity for all individual colleagues and teams.
Provides leadership, guidance, and coaching to Software Engineering teams, supporting training and development of best practices.
Recruits colleagues with relevant experience, and develops, rewards, and energizes an effective team.
Supervises the design, development, testing, and deployment of large-scale enterprise applications.
Oversees technical aspects of Software Engineering, including design, prototyping, and coding assignments for assigned applications.
Collaborates with internal teams and technical product managers to deliver platform improvements and enhancements.
Establishes and enforces engineering practices across teams, including code review, build and release processes, and retrospective effectiveness.
Empowers teams to automate scalable application deployments in test and production environments.
Collaborates with leadership to define technical solutions and drive software maturity and best practices.
Collaborates and co-creates effectively with teams in product and the business to align technology initiatives with business objectives.

Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and/or comparable experience; advanced degree preferred.
Knowledge of distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, NoSQL, and relational databases.
Knowledge of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s).
Software engineering and development experience or a related job.
Expertise in application design, software development, and automated testing.
Experience in distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
Experience in Agile software development methodologies and practices such as Scrum/Kanban, iterations, user stories.
Experience in automation testing and documentation (i.e. automated, functional, and performance).
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.