Principal Engineer - Global Dining

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and 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.

About American Express Global Dining 

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. 

As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience a culture built on innovation, shared values, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers and colleagues. You’ll have the support, flexibility, and autonomy to make an impact while helping shape the future of how people discover, book, and enjoy dining experiences worldwide. 

How will you make an impact in this role?

As the Principal Engineer for Global Dining, you will be the most senior technical leader across the Resy, Tock, and Rooam engineering organizations. Partnering directly with the CTO of Global Dining, you will drive the long-term architecture, ensure technical excellence across platforms, and guide the evolution of our global hospitality ecosystem. You’ll influence the technical direction for how we unify core services, and deliver scalable, reliable, high-performance systems that power millions of diners using consumer-facing dining experiences and thousands of restaurants and wineries.  

Key Responsibilities 

• Architect the future of dining platforms: Define and evolve the unified platform architecture spanning consumer-facing dining apps, restaurant and winery management systems, POS integrations, and partner APIs across Resy, Tock, and Rooam. 

• Drive scalability and reliability: Lead the design of distributed, event-driven systems and service architectures capable of supporting global scale and real-time experiences. 

• Technical leadership: Partner with product, data, and design leaders to shape strategic initiatives that advanc