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We’re looking for an engineering leader to lead digital payments on the Android platform within American Express. The digital payment engineering team’s aim is to build interactive experiences at all touch points of a consumer's journey to enable payment products before, at, or after the time of purchase. The products will range from new payment vehicles and partnerships with other payment entities to interactive payment experiences. The products and features will be used by millions of cardholders around the world. This is an opportunity to work in a fast-paced, agile environment within a Fortune 100 company.
This engineering leader will be creative and will enjoy solving tough problems. This person should be able to come up with innovative solutions, and be obsessive about API design and user experience. They will be expected to work with product managers to help define product direction, provide thought leadership on emerging technologies and create best of breed digital payment experiences that will set the standards for future development. They should be familiar with modern software development methodologies, and be able to dive deep and rapidly iterate on ideas despite ambiguity. Make no mistake - this is an opportunity to work on the latest mobile payments product engineering and influence how millions of people interact with their cards, their merchants and their money. Other responsibilities will include: • Lead teams in iterative product development using lean principles • Build and lead a high-performance team of software engineers • Bring a strong technical foundation; able to engage the team on architecture and design, and get under the hood of complex architectures, systems, and interface design • Collaborate successfully with product, designers, and a broad set of internal technical partners (across multiple internal groups) • Ensure product releases are high quality, deliver excellent user experiences, perform seamlessly at scale, and comply with regulatory requirements. • Partner with peers in Mobile Engineering and across technologies to identify opportunities for code sharing, common services, joint development, etc. • Keep up with the latest industry research and emerging technologies to ensure we are appropriately leveraging new techniques and capabilities • Demonstrate accountability while leading people with passion, enthusiasm, loyalty and integrity. Own and lead HR processes such as performance reviews, talent development, etc. • Consistently question assumptions, challenge the status quo, and push for improvement • Never settle for being “good enough” Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
Qualifications
• Extensive background in software product engineering and computer science • Solid interpersonal skills and ability to partner with executive leadership to push technical solutions forward • Proven ability to recruit top talent with technical skills, growth potential, design sensibility, and emotional intelligence. • Passion, energy, personal accountability, and a desire to lead others to excellence.
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