Director-Software Engineering

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. 

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. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our 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.

• 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. 

• 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.