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At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.
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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 talented 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.
The Developer Advocacy team are responsible for encouraging our engineering community to make Open Source contributions and are dedicated to helping our engineering community develop and deploy code faster and safer. The Senior Engineer will focus on developer relations, providing hands-on engineering guidance and support to drive community adoption of the patterns, practices, and tooling that make up Building Software the Amex Way. Essential to this role is the ability to pick up new technical skills quickly, overcome teething problems on new tech stacks and have the growth mindset to be an early adopter of new elements in the Amex Way while bringing other engineers with you on the journey.ulti-year programs focused on operationalizing the way code is designed and written at American Express.
You will work with others providing a strong and credible presence within specific internal communication channels (e.g. Slack) to promote and provide mentorship for engineers. As the "voice of the engineer", you'll collaborate with teams that provide services and support, in order to remove friction and improve product utilization. In addition, you'll support the market leaders, by inspiring growth mindset within the developer community.
"We have fun!" is one of our principles. You'll actively contribute and participate in adoption events and discussions (DevCons, Guild meetings, campus events, etc.)
Minimum Qualifications:
- Excellent problem-solving skills combined with self-motivation to pick up new technical stacks quickly and bring others with you on the journey
- Empathy for the challenges of software development and active curiosity about overcoming these challenges through software development, training and solution support
- Excellent oral communications with a passion for listening and helping engineers find solutions for their business needs and opportunities
- Superb networking skills and the ability to work cooperatively with and gain the respect of software developers and influencers
- Ability to give constructive feedback to engineering teams that are service providers, to increase product adoption and remove areas of friction
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience mentoring others
- Phenomenal developer skills
- Experience advocating for engineers and helping them learn and use new technology
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
To complete your application, please click on the links below. However, if you require any assistance with the completion of this process – or need any reasonable adjustments to be made – then please contact the Recruitment Team on recruitment.support.uk@aexp.com