Job Details

Sr. Manager, Software Engineering - Enterprise Platforms

Phoenix, AZ, United States(Hybrid)

Job Description

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.

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

Enterprise Platforms is a company-wide center of excellence responsible for the product management and engineering of four critical platforms that underpin American Express’ essential customer segments, value propositions, and business lines: Enterprise Money Movement, U.S. Deposits, Global Accounts Receivable, and Global Loyalty & Benefits.

Responsibilities

• Build software as part of a nimble agile Team where you have every opportunity to make an impact on the bottom line and contribute to the architecture.

• Help build a scalable distributed application that can meet performance expectations compared to legacy mainframe monolith applications.

• Lead and mentor engineers, while building next generation technical capabilities for Amex customers.

• Collaborate with our product team to ensure work coming into the scrum team is well refined and understood by the engineers.

• Ensure our infrastructure is safely extensible, scalable, reliable and meets SLAs for both external and internal users.

• Support less experienced engineers with their software development work.

• Create a brand for our platform composed of amazing APIs, Developer Portal, Tutorials and SDKs.

• Ensure our solutions are testable, intuitive, and easy to maintain.

• Use state of the art tools for remote collaboration and developer happiness, i.e., GitHub Copilot, IntelliJ, VS Code.

• Participate in design and code reviews for key components and cross Enterprise initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in backend reactive programming languages: Java 17+ and/or Kotlin.

• Proven track record developing lightweight reactive microservices: Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux.

• Proven track record in terms of building scalable applications by optimizing overall performance leveraging caching solutions.

• Experience in leveraging GenAI tools drive teams to accelerate the delivery.

• Experience of working with stakeholders and product owners to refine upcoming Epics.

• Deep understanding of event driven architecture and messaging: Kafka, webhooks, asynchronous API design.

• Experience with PostgreSQL or equivalent relational databases.

• Experience with NoSql database like Cassandra.

• Have experience working as an individual contributor as part of a cross functional agile team.

• Experience in FinTech is a massive plus.

• Have proven experience in supporting mission critical platforms with high levels of availability and service continuity.

• Have solid experience in cloud-based architecture and distributed systems.

• Have exceptional written and communication skills and can express dissenting opinions in a constructive manner.

• Self-directed and able to work in an ambiguous environment through the innovation process.

• Care about learning and being open minded about switching approaches and experimenting.

• Value collaboration and put the Team interests always above self.

• Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values (https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/company/who-we-are/) and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our 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.

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

• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

• 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit out Colleague Benefits Site (https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/colleagues/benefits) .

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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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) or fully virtually.

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Job Info

• Job Identification 26007434

• Job Category Technology

• Posting Date 05/06/2026, 06:16 PM

• Apply Before 05/20/2026, 04:00 AM

• Degree Level Bachelor's Degree

• Job Schedule Full time

• Job Shift Day

• Locations AMEX 18850 N 56th Street Building 3, Phoenix, AZ, 85054, US(Hybrid)

• Salary Range $123000 - $215250 annually + bonus + benefits

• Career Area Technology