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Description

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, ad 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 U.S. Consumer and Digital Technology (USCDT) Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

WHO WE ARE:

American Express Global Dining brings together world-class experiences through platforms like Resy, Tock, and Rooam, creating seamless connections between diners and restaurants, and the broader Amex Membership ecosystem. Our mission is to define the future of hospitality and dining through technology, data, and design.

The Role:

We are looking for a highly experienced, self-motivated Android Engineer to work on our consumer-facing Android app. We require strong technical skills and creativity; someone who enjoys solving tough problems and working with innovative technologies. You should not be shy about sharing ideas and expressing opinions about user experience and beautiful code. We welcome perfectionism at a healthy dose, being obsessive about the quality of your work, while supporting a work-life balance that is enabled by empowering our team to manage their own workload.

What You’ll Do:

• Work within our product teams to design, estimate, and build new features

• Quickly distill product requirements into tangible engineering tasks

• Produce high-quality, well-documented, and well-tested code

• Help shape our engineering culture by coming up with ideas, tools, and infrastructure wherever you see a problem to be solved

• Explore new technologies in the restaurant and hospitality industry

• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to establish and drive the product vision

Who You Are:

• You have extensive experience with Kotlin, Compose, and Coroutines

• You have a great understanding of one or more software architecture patterns, preferably MVVM

• You have demonstrated skills in delivering high-quality code that is well-documented, well-tested, and highly maintainable

• You have experience working with designers and product managers

• You keep up to date with the state-of-the-art of Android development

• You are willing to learn new technologies, and you effectively use them

• You have a strong sense of responsibility and ownership for your own work

• You enjoy offering help and are not shy about seeking help

• To put it simply: you care. You care about your work, your codebase, your app, your career growth, your team’s culture and future, and our collective efforts in building world-class software in a world-class engineering team!

How You Will Make an Impact in This Role:

• Build Android applications with an eye for detail and excellence

• Use dependency management and build tools such as Gradle and Github Actions

• Proactively find and fix bugs

• Do performance analysis and optimization

• Understand the pyramid of testing and know how and when to use unit, integration, and UI tests

• Design solutions for open ended problems

• Collaborate with designers and product managers, and give them feedback to help achieve intuitive UX with pixel-perfect UI and polished animations

• Help your teammates by reviewing their pull requests, answering their questions, unblocking them when they are stuck

• Create opportunities to brainstorm, share different perspectives, and seek different opinions to help achieve the best possible engineering solution

• Look beyond what is on your plate for the active sprint and pay attention to what others in your own team and the larger engineering organization is building

• Keep an eye on what is coming down the pipeline on the roadmap and get a good grasp of the company and product vision

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7 years of software development experience

• 4 years of Android development experience

• Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline (or equivalent work experience)

Technologies That You Will Encounter on Our Mobile Team:

These are technologies you will encounter as an Android Engineer.

• Kotlin

• Jetpack Compose

• Coroutines

• Gradle

• MVVM

• REST APIs

• JUnit

• Room

• Jetpack Navigation

• GitHub Actions

• Firebase

• Postman

• Figma

• Jira

• Confluence

Technologies That You May Encounter on Our Larger Engineering Organization:

These are technologies you don’t need to work with unless you are interested in to do so. We encourage you to collaborate with other teams using these technologies.

• Swift

• SwiftUI

• UIKit

• Tuist

• AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, SQS, SNS)

• Python

• MySQL

• GraphQL

• React

• Redux

• Webpack

• Captcha

Qualifications

Salary Range: $123,000.00 to $215,250.00 annually bonus benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries

• Bonus incentives

• 6% 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Job: Technology

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25021556