Senior Software Engineer - Global Commercial Services Technology

Senior Software Engineer  - Global Commercial Services Technology

Seattle, WA, United States

Phoenix, AZ, United States

New York, NY, United States

WA, United States

Sunrise, FL, United States

(Hybrid)

** Job Description*
* The Global Commercial Services team at American Express is looking for a seasoned Senior Engineer I with

extensive full-stack development expertise, a strategic product management mindset, and a proven history of

successfully leading and mentoring software engineering teams. This role will be pivotal in shaping and building our

next-generation expense management platform, designed to provide actionable insights into business spending for

our Small and Medium-sized (SMS) businesses and Corporate customers. We aim to deliver an innovative, scalable,

and highly integrated expenses solution that transforms business spending into a seamless, insightful experience.

** Responsibilities*
* - Play a critical role in the design, development, and deployment of our next-generation expense

management solution.

- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to refine

and shape product requirements, ensuring clarity and readiness for engineering.

- Mentor and guide feature teams, fostering effective collaboration within the team,

across guild teams, and with other cross-functional project teams.

- Develop robust platform services utilizing domain-driven design and hexagonal

architecture.

- Identify, evaluate, recommend, and integrate SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions to

efficiently achieve both functional and non-functional objectives.

- Participate in and facilitate Request-for-Comment (RFC) processes and proof-of
- concept (POC) activities.

- Integrate analytics and instrumentation tool chains into application development

workflows.

- Measure, monitor, and enhance application performance, scalability, and

resilience.

- Actively contribute to establishing and maintaining team coding standards and

system design conventions.

- Employ the Linear method to effectively guide the Software Development Lifecycle

of the team.

- Plan, estimate, delegate, and oversee task execution to ensure milestone goals are

met on time, proactively addressing risks and resolving blockers.

- Regularly demonstrate both individual and team milestone achievements and

progress to the product team and stakeholders.

- Gather, analyze, and incorporate stakeholder feedback to continuously improve the

product and refine software engineering practices.

** Qualifications*
* - Overall experience: 8+ years of experience in software engineering and product development, in

individual contributor as well as leadership roles.

- Education:

Bachelor of Science or Engineering, specializing in Information Technology, Computer

Science, or Software Engineering disciplines.

- Experience in full-stack development including mobile apps, web UI, middleware, platform services, and

infrastructure as code.

- Professional certifications in software engineering, architecture, or product management.

- At least 5 years of experience building, mentoring, and managing high-performance distributed

engineering teams.

- At least 5 years of experience in Frontend technologies for web, including Typescript and frameworks

such as React, Angular, or Ruby on Rails.

- At least 5 years of experience in Backend and general-purpose programming languages and run-times

such as Node.js, Python, Ruby, and Go.

- At least 2 years of experience with Mobile app development either with cross-platform technologies such

as React Native, Cordova, Ionic, or native app development.

- At least 2 years of experience showcasing deep engagement with product management and UX design

teams.

- Hands-on experience with cloud services for application development such as AWS Lambdas, S3, API

Gateway, SQS, ECS, RDS, etc.

- Hands-on experience with multiple storage technologies including RDBMS, Graph databases, document

stores, search indices, and OLAP databases.

- Hands-on experience integrating Postgres-compatible distributed databases such as Cockroach

DB.

- Hands-on experience integrating with workflow engines, orchestration engines, or durable-execution

technologies such as Camunda and Temporal.

- Hands-on experience developing data-driven UI and dynamic forms such as JSON-schema based

forms.

- Hands-on experience integrating with AI/ML models to build user-facing recommendation engines.

- Hands-on experience setting up instrumentation, analyzing performance, distributed tracing, and

debugging with Datadog or similar instrumentation technologies.

- Hands-on experience developing, improving, and testing application code towards industry-standard

specifications or to meet compliance requirements such as Camunda and Temporal.

- Hands-on experience developing data-driven UI and dynamic forms such as JSON-schema based forms.

- Hands-on experience integrating with AI/ML models to build user-facing recommendation engines.

- Hands-on experience setting up instrumentation, analyzing performance, distributed tracing, and debugging with Datadog or similar…