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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
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:
hackajob is partnering with American Express to fill this position. Create a profile to be automatically considered for this role—and others that match your experience.