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You Lead the Way. We've Got Your Back.

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we're supporting our customers' financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what's possible - and we're proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day.

We're looking for an Engineering Director 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. Your 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 engineering abilities.
Responsibilities:

• Work with a team of very hardworking 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 partners within business and technology teams to motivate change required to implement product roadmaps
• Coach, guide and promote creation of quality, clearly documented, and compliant work across engineering teams.
• Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and implement the development schedule for product releases

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers' digital lives. Here, you can work alongside dedicated engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. Amex offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.
Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in software industry building customer facing products with commitment, 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, or equivalent experience.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days).

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

Salary Range: $170,000.00 to $255,000.00 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.