Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

American Express Global Business Travel • Chicago, IL

1d • Remote

About The Position

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued. Sr. Manager, Software Development Engineering wanted by America Express Global Business Travel. Egencia LLC in Chicago, IL. Hiring, mentoring, and retaining a best-of-class engineering team. Fostering career growth and a strong team culture. Ensuring personnel have appropriate skills and behaviors. Effectively communicating performance results. Proposing and implementing new projects or recommending system improvements. Innovating for our customers by taking a long-term perspective to build systems and features. Creating and driving long-term development and business technology strategies. Keeping track of response time of inquiry requests for services utilizing platform metrics. Managing each project to ensure that it remains within the approved manpower and budget guidelines. Performing quality inspections and walkthroughs, architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews and security reviews to ensure compliance with standards. Collaborating with product managers, architects, and program partners to build and deploy world-class software. Working in tandem with architects and other software developers to design robust solutions; Interfacing and connecting standards (API’s/SDKs) so external partners can connect to our services. Overseeing operational aspects such as performance tuning, monitoring, and fault-tolerance. Leading software engineering practices and standard methodologies for the full software development process, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations. Prototyping creative solutions quickly and taking a project from prototype to production quality. Demonstrating leadership in mentoring, establishing standards in documentation and clean code, and setting a professional example for the team.

Requirements

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field.
• Must have: five (5) years of experience with Java and Kotlin
• five (5) years of experience with React.js and TypeScript
• four (4) years of experience with AWS Kinesis and Rabbit MQ
• three (3) years of experience with Datadog
• three (3) years of experience with Kubernetes
• two (2) years of experience with GraphQL

Responsibilities

• Hiring, mentoring, and retaining a best-of-class engineering team.
• Fostering career growth and a strong team culture.
• Ensuring personnel have appropriate skills and behaviors.
• Effectively communicating performance results.
• Proposing and implementing new projects or recommending system improvements.
• Innovating for our customers by taking a long-term perspective to build systems and features.
• Creating and driving long-term development and business technology strategies.
• Keeping track of response time of inquiry requests for services utilizing platform metrics.
• Managing each project to ensure that it remains within the approved manpower and budget guidelines.
• Performing quality inspections and walkthroughs, architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews and security reviews to ensure compliance with standards.
• Collaborating with product managers, architects, and program partners to build and deploy world-class software.
• Working in tandem with architects and other software developers to design robust solutions
• Interfacing and connecting standards (API’s/SDKs) so external partners can connect to our services.
• Overseeing operational aspects such as performance tuning, monitoring, and fault-tolerance.
• Leading software engineering practices and standard methodologies for the full software development process, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations.
• Prototyping creative solutions quickly and taking a project from prototype to production quality.
• Demonstrating leadership in mentoring, establishing standards in documentation and clean code, and setting a professional example for the team.

Benefits

• Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and wellbeing resources to support you and your immediate family.
• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.
• Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.
• We strive to champion Inclusion in every aspect of our business at Amex GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global INclusion Groups, centered around common identities or initiatives, to discuss challenges, obstacles, achievements, and drive company awareness and action.
• And much more!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees