Mobile Engineering Director
You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.
With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.
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.
Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.
- 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 productswith 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
We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
- Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- Support for financial-well-being and retirement
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
- Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
- Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
- Career development and training opportunities
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.