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Senior Engineer II - Android Mobile (Amex ID: 25008178)
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American Express
Senior Engineer II - Android Mobile (Amex ID: 25008178)
London
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Description
ID: ID: 25008178
At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
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 70,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. 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.
American Express entered the travel agency business in 1915, and today is one of the world’s largest luxury travel and lifestyle service networks. The Travel & Lifestyle Services (TLS) business provides exclusive access, differentiated value, extraordinary service, and unrivalled expertise to Card Members seeking leisure or business travel, as well as a variety of lifestyle services. The Global Digital Customer Experience is a strategic focus area for growth within Travel and Lifestyle Services and there is significant continuing investment to transform and optimize our digital proposition and capabilities. The upcoming American Express Travel Mobile App not only drives direct revenue and cost savings but also plays an important role in overall Card product engagement, loyalty and satisfaction.
How will you make an impact in this role?
We are looking for a highly motivated, independent, and skilled engineer to work on developing travel mobile application that will be used by American Express cardholders around the world. We want someone with strong technical skills and creativity; someone who enjoys solving tough problems and working with innovative technologies. This person should not be shy about sharing their ideas and be obsessive about user experience and beautiful code.
You will be working in a fast-paced small-team environment with the stability of working as part of a Fortune 100 company. Your primary responsibility will be to work with a team of designers, product owners, QA, and engineers solutioning, developing and improving features. You should be familiar with modern software development methodologies popular in Android and be able to dive deep and rapidly iterate on ideas with your team despite some ambiguity.
Application Solutioning
Present solutions on an ongoing basis in wider forums including senior leaders to seek feedback, make continuous adjustments and drive sign offs.
Document architecture, technical requirements, high-level and low-level designs to include component design, data models, integration views, infrastructure design and software technology stack.
Conduct quantitative comparative analysis on solution options.
Software Development
Sets up the infrastructure and the development environments.
Writes and delivery high quality code in Kotlin for Android development
Leads review of colleague’s work
Builds monitoring dashboards and logging & alerting strategies.
Monitors system performance and availability and improves software quality through root cause analysis.
Deep understanding of infrastructure technologies and components
Has deep understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analysing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)
Leadership
Prepares and presents solutions and progress updates to product and technology leadership
Collaborates and communicates effectively across engineering and enterprise teams.
Mentors and coaches junior team members
Influences team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking.
Demonstrates increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.
Minimum Qualifications:
6+ years of software development experience in:
Building Android Applications with Kotlin
Build tools like Gradle, GitHub Actions, and Circle CI
Asynchronous coding patterns
Continuous Integration patterns
Unit & Integration Tests
Finding and fixing bugs
Performance Analysis and Optimization
Designing solutions for open ended problems
Working in a globally distributed team
Technically leading an agile engineering team and contributing to agile ceremonies.
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required, advanced degree preferred.
Relevant technologies that you may encounter on our team:
Jetpack Compose, MVI Architecture, REST APIs, OkHttp, RAML API Documentation, Dagger, Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow, RxJava, GitHub Actions, Circle CI, Espresso & JUnit, Test Fakes & WireMock
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones’ physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
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.
Role tech stack
java
kotlin
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Culture overview
Our culture is built on a 175-year history of courageous leadership, innovation, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and each other. With shared values and leadership behaviors, we’ve continued to set the standard for what it means to provide the best experience every day with premium products and services that help our customers achieve their aspirations. As part of Team Amex, you’ll build strong relationships and collaborate with colleagues around the world in an environment where everyone is respected and valued, and where you can reach your potential. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
Employee benefits
Bonus Scheme
Childcare Vouchers
Cycle To Work
Flexible Hours
Flexible Working
Laptop
Life Insurance
Pension
Private Healthcare
Season Ticket Loan
Wellbeing Programme
Office vibe
City Centre
Hackathons
Open Plan
Social Events
Location
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Leadership
Ravi Radhakrishnan
Chief Information Officer
Tech overview
Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues. Make an Impact Our tech teams power large scale platforms and products, enabling over 100 million global consumers and businesses. Grow Your Career Progress as either a people leader or technical expert, while increasing your domain expertise within a high-performing team. Expand Your Skills Use the latest languages, technologies, and delivery practices, and demonstrate your skills at internal hackathons, open-source days, and developer events. Global Tech Career Pathways Explore roles across 5x career pathways: Engineering & Architecture; Digital Product & Design; Service Delivery; Information Security; Product Delivery & Integration. Find your place in Tech on #TeamAmex. Meet our Tech Colleagues, leading through innovation. Laurence - “What provides unparallel satisfaction in my role is having a meaningful contribution to combating cybercrime.” Will - “Being able to move into different jobs around the company keeps things varied and exciting.” Dev - “As a new colleague, I was astonished at how quickly I was able to acclimate… I’ve achieved a lot in my first year.” Eve - “I thrive on building products and architecture-as-code that cement the data culture we have here.” Meghan - “I’ve built well-rounded skills and have been able to identify the type of engineering that suits me most..” Mohan - “Amex has a stellar technology organization; I get opportunities to gain exposure across various stacks.” Learn more about Tech careers on #TeamAmex.
Engineering principles
Agile Process
Change Management
Code Reviews
Communication and collaboration
Continuous delivery
Continuous Development
Knowledge sharing
Mentoring
Monitoring and logging
Open source contributor
Pair programming
Scrum
Company tech stack
javascript
python
hadoop
android
salesforce
goland
kotlin
kubernetes
kafka-streams
react
restful
graphql
grpc
postgresql
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American Express
Senior Engineer II - Android Mobile (Amex ID: 25008178)
London
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