Job description 

We are looking for someone with strong technical skills for mobile app development (iOS and Android), sense for creativity and passion for building beautiful mobile apps. You should enjoy solving complex technical problems and working with newer technologies. Also, you should be a huge advocate for building amazing user experiences, beautiful code and craftsmanship. 

You will be part of the Mobile Engineering team whose mission is to be essential in our Customers’ digital lives by providing value, convenience, and delight wherever they are. Your primary responsibilities will be to lead a team of engineers developing mobile applications that will be used by tens of millions of American Express Customers around the world. You should have expertise building mobile apps using modern software development methodologies and be able to dive deep and rapidly iterate on ideas despite ambiguity. You will be working in a fast-paced environment with the stability of working for a Fortune 100 company. This leader will encompass a unique blend of strong leadership and an in-depth engineering skillset especially with modern application development technologies for building high quality and delightful mobile experiences. 

Responsibilities 

Work with a team of highly talented mobile engineers to build and deliver the mobile roadmap in the areas pertaining to - redesign of enterprise mobile app, new information architecture, native design language, consistent mobile UI patterns, building scalable mobile search and many other features to bring the customer experiences to life via the mobile app 

Responsible to build the mobile features using the right iOS and Android architectural patterns to ensure scalability and robustness 

Work with mobile product development closely to understand the product and customer needs; and enable the product and customer vision for the company  

Contribute to advance the mobile platform to improve developer efficiency  

Responsible for the people management of a co-located and remote engineering teams  

Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics  

Recruit best in class and diverse mobile talent from the industry  

Drive innovation within a fast-paced agile environment  

Engage in hands-on design and ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods with software engineers and architects to execute product roadmaps  

Collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders within business and technology teams to drive change required to execute product roadmaps  

Coach, guide and promote creation of high quality, clearly documented, and compliant deliverables across engineering teams 

Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases 

Minimum Qualifications

Solid experience building and leading native Mobile App development (iOS / Android) 

Mobile UI/UX experience using Apple’s Human Interface Design and Google Material Design 

Experience building out consumer-facing products and platforms for mobile apps with high performance, availability and high scalability 

Experience managing software engineering teams designing and building software products in a fast-paced, complex and dynamic software development environment  

Extensive hands-on experience building and managing the development of complex, large scale applications and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and dependencies  

Experience being a people leader, coaching, mentoring and guiding for highly talented technical teams  

Experience attracting, hiring retaining and leading top engineering talent  

Experience with Agile, Scrum or other rapid application development methodologies is required  

University Degree in computer science, or engineering-related field required 

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