Senior Android Engineer

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American Express entered the travel agency business in 1915, and today is one of the world’s largest luxury travel and lifestyle service networks. The Travel & Lifestyle Services (TLS) business provides exclusive access, differentiated value, extraordinary service, and unrivalled expertise to Card Members seeking leisure or business travel, as well as a variety of lifestyle services. The Global Digital Customer Experience is a strategic focus area for growth within Travel and Lifestyle Services and there is significant continuing investment to transform and optimize our digital proposition and capabilities. American Express Travel Online not only drives direct revenue and cost savings but also plays an important role in overall Card product engagement, loyalty and satisfaction.

How you will make an impact in this role?

We are looking for a highly motivated, independent, and skilled engineer to architect, design and build the Android travel mobile app.

Software Development

Sets up the infrastructure and the development environments.

Writes and delivery high quality code

Leads review of colleague’s work

Builds monitoring dashboards and logging & alerting strategies.

Monitors system performance and availability and improves software quality through root cause analysis.

Deep understanding of infrastructure technologies and components

Has deep understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analysing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)

Leadership

Prepares and presents solutions and progress updates to product and technology leadership

Collaborates and communicates effectively across engineering and enterprise teams.

Mentors and coaches junior team members

Influences team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking.

Demonstrates increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.

Relevant experience and skills

Writing & Deleting code

Build tools like Gradle, GitHub Actions, and Circle CI

Finding and fixing bugs

Performance Analysis and Optimization

Dealing with legacy code

Unit & Integration Tests

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

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

Relevant technologies that you may encounter on our team

Jetpack Compose

REST APIs

OkHttp

RAML API Documentation

Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow

RxJava

GitHub Actions

Circle CI

Test Fakes

WireMock

Company Benefits

Amex Flex (Hybrid Work Model) – providing greater flexibility to colleagues

Retirement Savings Plan

Parental Leave & Nursing Mothers Rooms

Backup and In-home Child and Elder Care

24/7 Mental Health Counselling

Wellness Centers & Health Living programs

Paid Time Off

100% Global Pay Equity

Career, Training and Learning – American Express Leadership Program, LinkedIn Learning, American Express & Harvard Leadership Program

Exclusive Deals and Discounts

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology and Engineering

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