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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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About this role

Choreo is our brand-new GraphQL platform which is being developed as an access gateway for all channels, either customer facing or internal, to access data to enable the best customer experiences our customers deserve. With Choreo, all consumers will get back more time to focus on their own development, being decoupled from the modernization programs our backends are running, and still being able to get the data their need with quality and consistency. Working with us means that you will be able to experience both building the graph for consumers as well as building the ecosystems of tools for managing an enterprise federated GraphQL API.
In this role, you will be responsible for people, process and technology leadership for a team of engineers. You need to demonstrate solid skills in both engineering and people leadership.

Software Engineering

• Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large scale enterprise applications
• Responsible for all the technical aspects of software engineering, from the design to production release and post-release support
• Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform
• Establish and accepts responsibilities for engineering practices across teams for example the code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective
• Apply specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives in order to identify complex and or broad problems and issues and formulate recommendations
• Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices

Leadership

• People Leader to individual junior engineers and contractors
• Promote, empower, and practice servant-leadership
• Drives the team’s technical improvements and roadmap
• Takes accountability for the technical maturity of the team
• Mentor and guide team members to success; identify strengths and areas for growth in direct reports and guides them to grow in their careers while being more productive on the team
• Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
• Work with the Engineering Director to successfully run the team

Qualifications:

• Most successful candidates are currently working as Senior Engineers or similar role
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred
• 5+ years of active engineering
• Experience with Java or Kotlin. Experience with frontend technologies such as Javascript or React is a plus.
• 2+ years leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience
• Successful design, creation and deployment of one or more enterprise-grade technology assets, including integration of cross-platform solutions in an Agile product environment
• Experience with agile software development methodologies and practices such as Scrum/Kanban, iterations, user stories
• Ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Hands on experience with automation testing and documentation (i.e. automated, functional, and performance)
• Ability to learn and adapt in a rapidly changing environment.
• Adaptable to changes in product requirements, organizational structures and business conditions
• Engaged with the open source community, demonstrated public speaking, etc

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

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

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.