Senior Python Engineer - Technical Research & Development

American Express•Phoenix, AZ

17h

About The Position

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. 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 Enterprise Data and AI organization unites the data governance, strategy, engineering, and product teams with those responsible for AI engineering, generative AI enablement, and automation product and engineering. This group plays a pivotal role in leveraging data as a core driver of innovation and integrating AI capabilities to transform products, operations, and customer experiences. The EDAI organization also incorporates technology Research & Development and experimentation with emerging capabilities, along with engineering support for Amex Digital Labs. This integration ensures that research breakthroughs seamlessly translate into business impact. On any given day, you might: Bring a strong technical foundation; able to engage the team on coding practices, architecture, design, get under the hood of complex frameworks, tools, and platforms Collaborate successfully with product owners, designers, and a broad set of internal Technical partners (across multiple internal groups) Ensure product releases are high quality, deliver excellent user experiences, perform seamlessly at scale, and comply with regulatory requirements. Partner with peers in technologies to identify opportunities for code sharing, common services, joint development, etc. Keep up with the latest industry research and emerging technologies to ensure we are appropriately leveraging new techniques and capabilities. Demonstrate accountability while leading people with passion, enthusiasm, loyalty and integrity. Own and lead HR processes such as performance reviews, talent development, etc. Drive and empower implementation with emerging technologies including GenAI, with tooling, frameworks, guardrails, models and environments. Navigate and understand a complex and rapidly evolving technology space with an open mind, creative problem solving skills, and a bias for early action.

Requirements

7+ years of professional technical product or software development experience.
Flawless interpersonal skills and ability to partner with executive leadership to push technical solutions forward.
Proven skills leading teams of technical experts developing and maintaining enterprise grade tools, APIs, and environments.
Experience in design/architecture of systems.
Full software development lifecycle experience.
Skilled in deploying and scaling products in public cloud.
Knowledge of Generative AI and Large Language Model inference.
Knowledge of agentic coding (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, etc.).
Knowledge of AI tools and frameworks, such as Langchain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, etc.
Passion for cutting edge technologies and excitement to tackle hard problems before there are clear solutions.
Passion for creating a fun, empathetic work environment where high performing, diverse teams can thrive.

Nice To Haves

Experience building, developing, integrating with and/or launching GenAI products in a highly regulated industry
Experience in Data Science and analytics a plus.

Responsibilities

Bring a strong technical foundation; able to engage the team on coding practices, architecture, design, get under the hood of complex frameworks, tools, and platforms
Collaborate successfully with product owners, designers, and a broad set of internal Technical partners (across multiple internal groups)
Ensure product releases are high quality, deliver excellent user experiences, perform seamlessly at scale, and comply with regulatory requirements.
Partner with peers in technologies to identify opportunities for code sharing, common services, joint development, etc.
Keep up with the latest industry research and emerging technologies to ensure we are appropriately leveraging new techniques and capabilities.
Demonstrate accountability while leading people with passion, enthusiasm, loyalty and integrity. Own and lead HR processes such as performance reviews, talent development, etc.
Drive and empower implementation with emerging technologies including GenAI, with tooling, frameworks, guardrails, models and environments.
Navigate and understand a complex and rapidly evolving technology space with an open mind, creative problem solving skills, and a bias for early action.

Benefits

Competitive base salaries
Bonus incentives
6%25 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