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Company Name : Amex
Location : Bengaluru, Karnataka
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Job Description : You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.
At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible — and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. 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..
American Express is entering into a technology transformation phase driven by opportunities to modernize legacy platforms, and explore modern software to be on the leading edge of the payments industry. American Express is looking for strong leaders to be part of high performing teams that will build and support our next generation platforms. If you have the talent and passion to drive innovation and deliver at a rapid pace, with deep hands on experience in areas of real-time, highly available, cloud-native application development, join our engineering teams to transform our systems.
Your primary responsibility is to lead the development of our next generation distributed platform, aligning resources and delivery with business growth and diversification, while significantly improving service quality and cost-effectiveness. We expect the individual to be innovative and energetic with strong communications skills.
About
American Express Global Card Network Platform authorizes and processes all of the company’s customer card transactions. The Card Network platform is the critical back bone for all of American Express card transactions, and is a near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24×7, 365 days a year.
American Express is making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to allow the company to meet its ambitious global growth agenda. American Express is looking for strong leaders and engineers to be part of high energy and efficient teams that will build and support our next generation card network systems.
Director of Performance Engineering
As our Director of Performance Engineering, you will join our global technology team that has embarked on building a highly available and scalable distributed systems on the cloud to support the company’s long-term strategy and vision. Your primary responsibility is to build and support capabilities of our next generation distributed platform, aligning resources and delivery with business growth and diversification, while significantly improving service quality and cost-effectiveness.
Key Initiatives:
Card Network Authorizations/Routing, Clearing and Settlement.
ATM, Debit, Credit and Push Payment Transactions.
Platform Engineering and Foundational Capabilities of distributed systems
High Availability, Resiliency and Performance Engineering on Cloud

Responsibilities Include
You will be responsible for development of Performance and Scalability engineering frameworks for payment platforms deployed on cloud, hybrid landscapes with a multitude of modern tech stacks
You will be responsbile for development of Chaos testing frameworks and design of distributed and multi-datacenter chaos use cases
You will be responsible for running release certification activities and certify the product readiness from Performance, Scale and Availability point of view
You will constantly purse and learn industry leading/innovative solutions. Build high awareness of open-source technologies and communities that enable high volume low latency systems.
You will manage high performance teams of size between 15 to 30 employees
Lead a culture of innovation and experimentation, support full software development lifecycle that incorporates the best of technology approaches and delivery methodologies.
Engage with developers in day to day activities and helping in review of design, coding and the SDLC tasks. Stepping into code where and if needed and be a hands-on leader
Ensure on time product releases that are of high quality, enabling the core vision of next generation card processing systems.
Promote a fun and high engagement culture, with a results orientated focus. Hire, mentor, motivate and retain the best talent.
Collaborate with peer technology and product teams across different locations.

Education qualification – Engineering Graduation/ Post Graduation in Computer Science or equivalent
12 to 16+yrs of extensive experience in Software development, including 5+ years of leadership experience in Pefromance Engineering
Have delivered large scale enterprise systems/products and have extensive hands-on experience in tuning the Performance and Availability aspects, preferably delivered and supported products as Cloud native services.
Experience building highly available and low latency distributed systems. Experience building systems as service-oriented architecture and/or micro-services architecture.
Keen awareness of concerns in a massively distributed systems and effective solutions.
Experience in Linux cloud (Kubernetes) environment supporting applications built using language like Java, Go, Node.js and NoSQL databases like Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis.
Experience attracting, hiring and retaining top engineering talent.
Have experience leading engineering teams and in agile methodologies, have enabled DevOps mindset, processes and tools
Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
Excellent judgment and constant pursuit of higher standards, a passion to build and nurture high efficiency teams.
Have excellent written and verbal communications skills. Create and deliver effective presentations to Senior Leadership.

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

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