American Express Hiring for Engineer-Swift at Boston, Massachusetts Full Time

Description

Kabbage, an American Express Company, is setting a new standard in big data and FinTech and we are looking for an Engineer to help us in our mission to help small businesses be mighty.

Acquired by American Express in 2020, Kabbage is a leading FinTech company changing the way small businesses manage their cash flow. Applying automation and real-time data, Kabbage provides small businesses a suite of integrated cash-flow technologies from flexible lines of credit, digital business checking accounts, fast payments and predictive business analytics. Now with the powerful backing of American Express, Kabbage can offer millions of small businesses the opportunity to access digital tools to help them grow bigger, lasting companies. While we’ve received numerous awards and recognition—such as Entrepreneur’s Top Company Cultures, Inc Magazine’s Top Private Companies, GlassDoor’s Best Places to Work, and Forbes FinTech 50—it is our people, our culture, and our leaders that make Kabbage such a great place to work.

At Kabbage, we strive to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, to stay, and do their best work. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is reflected in our people, our partners, and our customers. We are fully focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other wonderful characteristics that make us different.

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.

Your mission:

Collaborate with our product and design teams to customize the Kabbage experience for the iOS platform. Use your creativity, problem-solving ability, and in-depth knowledge of iOS and Swift best practices to create and optimize features while providing a best-in-class experience for our customers.

What you’ll be doing:

1. Play a critical role in the development, design, maintenance, and architecture of Kabbage’s iOS app.

2. Create elegant solutions in a rapid and agile development environment with frequent deliveries.

3. Work closely with our product and design teams to customize the Kabbage experience for the iOS platform.

4. Leverage the latest technologies from Apple, and stay up-to-date with Swift’s evolution and best-practices.

5. Be a catalyst for driving best-in-class technology frameworks and tooling while staying engaged with the latest technology trends.

What we’re looking for in you:

• Proactivity: Resourceful, has grit, and a positive “can do” attitude; acts without being told what to do.

• Flexibility/adaptability: Is cool with rapidly changing priorities and projects.

• Follow-through: Follows-through on items without being managed.

• Calm under pressure: Ability to navigate and lead the team through high-priority last minute requests and other high stress situations; Works well under high-pressure timelines.

• Analytical skills: Likes learning and learns quickly.

• Communication: Ability to speak clearly and with intent.

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.

If the role you are applying for is designated as hybrid or onsite, you will be required to demonstrate that you have completed your primary COVID-19 vaccination series (i.e., 2 doses for Moderna/Pfizer and 1 dose for J&J) and, for medically eligible

• colleagues, a booster shot, in order to work in or visit any of our offices. This requirement is subject to legally required accommodations.

• Booster eligibility: The CDC has established guidelines for when adults are eligible to receive booster shots depending on when they completed their initial vaccine series (currently five months after the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, and two months after the J&J Vaccine). If you have completed your primary vaccine series but have not yet reached your booster eligibility date, you will be able to come into the office; however, you will need to complete your booster within 30 days of becoming eligible to continue coming in and participating in company-sponsored in-person events.

Qualifications

• 2 years building complex applications for the iPhone or iPad in a team environment.

• A strong understanding of Swift, mobile application development and application architecture.

• Comfortable using and creating applications that work with networking APIs.

• Experience with version control and managing dependencies in complex projects.

• Exposure to RESTful APIs and GraphQL.

• Experience with multithreading programming, writing unit tests and testable code.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

Job: Technology

Primary Location: United States

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 22003683