Engineering Director

As our Director of Engineering, you will join our global technology team that has embarked on building a highly available and scalable distributed systems on the cloud to support the company's long-term strategy and vision. Your primary responsibility is to build and support capabilities of our next generation distributed platform, build innovative payment capabilities leveraging the platform, aligning resources and delivery with business growth and diversification, while significantly improving service quality and cost-effectiveness. We expect the individual to be innovative and energetic with strong communications skills.

Key Initiatives

• Card Network Authorizations/Routing, and Clearing and Settlement
• Omni-channel platforms and partner connectivity management
• ATM, Debit, Credit and Push Payment Transactions, Real Time Settlement
• Multi-rail Payments.
• Platform Engineering and Foundational Capabilities of distributed systems
• High Availability, Resiliency and Performance Engineering on Cloud

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for building capabilities of a distributed transaction processing infrastructure and payment processing business logic by leveraging that platform. Leading and engaging technical teams that builds/deploys high throughput systems.
• You will constantly purse and learn industry leading/innovative solutions. Build high awareness of open-source technologies and communities that enable high volume low latency systems.
• Lead a culture of innovation and experimentation, support full software development lifecycle that incorporates the best of technology approaches and delivery methodologies.
• Engage with developers in day to day activities and helping in review of design, coding and the SDLC tasks. Stepping into code where and if needed and be a hands-on leader
• Ensure on time product releases that are of high quality, enabling the core vision of next generation card processing systems.
• Promote a fun and high engagement culture, with a results orientated focus. Hire, mentor, motivate and retain the best talent.
• Collaborate with peer technology and product teams across different locations. 

Qualifications 

• You have Computer Science  degree, or equivalent with at-least 10+ years of work experience and at least 5 years of leadership role experience.
• Have built and delivered large scale enterprise systems/products and have extensive hands-on experience. Preferably delivered and supported products as Cloud hosted services.
• Experience building highly available and low latency distributed systems. Experience building systems as service-oriented architecture and/or micro-services architecture.
• Keen awareness of concerns in a massively distributed systems and effective solutions.
• Experience in Linux cloud (Kubernetes) environment supporting applications built using language like Java, Go, Node.js and NoSQL databases like Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis.
• Experience attracting, hiring and retaining top engineering talent.
• Have experience leading engineering teams and in agile methodologies, have enabled DevOps mindset, processes and tools
• Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
• Excellent judgment and constant pursuit of higher standards, a passion to build and nurture high efficiency teams.
• Have excellent written and verbal communications skills. Create and deliver effective presentations to Senior Leadership.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• 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 work arrangements and schedules with hybrid and virtual options with Amex Flex 
• 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