Staff Software Engineer - Global Dining

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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.

ABOUT THE ROLE :

At American Express Global Dining, we are tackling hard problems with elegant solutions and scaling very quickly. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in taking our product and engineering team to the next level. We are seeking ambitious builders who are eager to launch exciting features for our restaurant partners and diners. The ideal candidates elevate the teams around them by providing technical mentorship, setting their team’s technical vision, and adapting their role to address gaps and reduce risk. You have the toolkit to work on complex and unknown problems under pressure or at speed. You thrive in a dynamic and constantly evolving environment, you are a collaborator and an innovator, and you are excited about what technology is doing for the hospitality industry.

Minimum Qualifications :

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related field

8+ years of experience working as a Software Engineer, preferably in a fast-paced startup environment

3+ years of experience working as a Software Engineering Staff Engineer / Architect

You are a self-starter but very comfortable working closely with a team

You are comfortable working with stakeholders outside the Engineering team including our Compliance, Information Security, Product, Design, Sales and Account Management teams

You have strong expertise with the following :

Strong experience with a backend programming language, Python & Java Web frameworks preferred

SQL / MySQL / Postgres

RDBMS and database design

Unit / Functional Testing

Linux / UNIX

Implementing and building APIs

Monitoring system performance

Leading and growing teams of fellow engineers through complex deliveries

A history of taking projects through the entire software development lifecycle from inception to delivery as a technical leader

A passion for documenting how systems work

Big Plus if you have :

History of building and maintaining systems at large scale

Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions

Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential

Experience with and understanding of the Resy suite of applications

At the core of Software Engineering, every member of our team must be able to demonstrate the following technical, functional, leadership and business core competencies, including :

Agile Practices

Porting / Software Configuration

Programming Languages and Frameworks

Business Analysis

Analytical Thinking

Business Product Knowledge

Python / MySQL Experience

SQL Performance tuning

Microservice architectures

AWS - EC2 / RDS / S3 / SQS

Kafka / Celery / Flask / Django / Supervisord / MongoDB

Dev-ops experience

Jira / Clubhouse.io or other project management tool

Payment systems experience

Websockets experience

You enjoy at least one of the following things : shishito peppers, uni, or creme anglaise