Senior Android Engineer - Resy at American Express
Palo Alto, CA 94301
About the Job
DescriptionYou 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 has the opportunity to 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. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.Join Team Amex 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 on #TeamAmex. The U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology 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:Resy is the American Express global dining platform. Our mission is to power the world’s best restaurants, using technology to imagine the future of hospitality. We serve 5,000 restaurants globally. Our customers discover the amazing world of restaurants thanks to our content-rich website and innovative mobile apps. Our diners are insiders, and we love having them at the table. We’re hiring, too. Interested in joining our team of restaurant-obsessed explorers? Right this way.The Engineering Organization:As part of our diverse tech team, you will architect, code, and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you will 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. We offer a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourage 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.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.By joining the Resy Mobile Team at American Express, you will have the best of both worlds; you will enjoy working in a fast-paced, small-team environment, along with the stability and long-term career growth opportunity that comes with working at a Fortune 100 company. Your primary responsibility will be to work with 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 Android and be able to deep dive and rapidly iterate on ideas with your team despite some ambiguity.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 visionWho 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 visionMinimum 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
• ConfluenceTechnologies 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
• CaptchaQualificationsSalary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefitsThe 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 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 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan Free financial coaching and financial well-being support Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 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 opportunitiesFor a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.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.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.US Job Seekers/Employees - Click here to view the “Know Your Rights” poster and the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.If the links do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window: to access the three posters.Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions. Job Field: TechnologySchedule: Full-time
• 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 visionWho 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 visionMinimum 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
• ConfluenceTechnologies 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
• CaptchaQualificationsSalary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefitsThe 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 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 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan Free financial coaching and financial well-being support Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 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 opportunitiesFor a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.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.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.US Job Seekers/Employees - Click here to view the “Know Your Rights” poster and the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.If the links do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window: to access the three posters.Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions. Job Field: TechnologySchedule: Full-time
