Staff Engineer

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague can share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. We’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join #TeamAmex and let’s lead the way together.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives.  Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems.  American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source.  And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development.  Find your place in technology of #TeamAmex.

We are looking for an iOS Staff Engineer to work on mobile applications that are used by tens of millions of American Express cardholders around the world. We want someone with strong technical skills and creativity; someone who enjoys solving tough problems and working with innovative technologies. This person should not be shy about sharing their ideas and be obsessive about user experience and beautiful code. 

How will you make an impact in this role?

You will be working in a fast-paced small-team environment with the stability of working as part of a Fortune 100 company. Your primary responsibility will be to work on a small team of designers, product owners, QA, and engineers developing and improving features. You should be familiar with modern software development methodologies popular in iOS and be able to dive deep and rapidly iterate on ideas with your team despite some ambiguity. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Building iOS Applications 
• Writing & Deleting code 
• Build tools like Tuist, xcodebuild, GitHub Actions, and Circle CI 
• Continuous Integration patterns 
• Finding and fixing bugs 
• Functional coding patterns 
• Performance Analysis and Optimization 
• Dealing with Objective-C legacy code 
• Unit & Integration Tests 
• Open Source  
• Working in a globally distributed team 
• Self-starting and good at time management 
• Integrating with bespoke lovingly hand-crafted backend services from the days of yore.  
• Designing solutions for open ended problems 
• Experience with a variety of iOS architectures and the technical leadership required to uplift an existing code base to new architecture patterns.
• University degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.

 Relevant technologies that you may encounter on our team 

• UIKit 
• MVVM  
• REST APIs 
• RAML API Documentation 
• Danger 
• Features Architecture
• Swift
• Objective-C (in decreasing quantities!)
• GitHub Actions
• Circle CI
• XCTest / XCUITest
• Tuist 

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

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.