You 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 of #TeamAmex.
How will you make an impact in this role?
- Lead the design and architecture of enterprise class platforms using industry best practices
- Write clean and concise code that is well-tested, easy to maintain, and consistent with existing patterns in our codebase.
- Collaborate with Product Owners to translate business designs and requirements into functioning applications.
- Developing and integrating REST APIs between back-end systems to support high-volume intranet applications.
- Collaborating with product owners, delivery managers, and other developers to deliver a quality product.
- Taking ownership and responsibility of the work at hand and shepherding code through to production.
- Actively pair-programming with teammates for collective code ownership and mentoring other engineers.
Minimum Qualifications
- Hands on experience in designing and developing Orchestrator layers and APIs
- Hands on experience in developing workflow components
- Expert-level knowledge of building REST APIs in Java and JavaScript;
- Keen understanding of application architecture and design in a cloud-native environment
- Experience with Event Driven architecture and implementation
- Ability to quickly identify coding and environment issues relating to design, stability, and scalability
- Strong experience with developing code for Relational and NoSQL databases
- Leadership experience in Agile development environment within a heavily matrixed organization
- Automated testing, build automation (Jenkins preferred), and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) across multiple pipelines
- Performance testing experience including root cause analysis and resolution for complicated issues
- Willingness and ability to lead complex cross-team initiatives without direct authority
- Learn new technologies quickly, be able to mentor team members, and leverage new technolgy benefits to enhance existing software
- Strong sense of ownership and a big proponent of DevOps culture.
- 8+ years of Software Development experience, with 2+ yrs of vendor management is a plus (not critical).
- Preferably a BS or MS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other subject area.
- Solid programming skills in one of the core programming languages like Java related technologies, React and UI skills is added advantage
- Strong thought leadership skills, with consistent track record of leading through influencing.
- Showcased and proven experience in core engineering skills in terms of automation of availability, logging, monitoring, B&Cs, alerting etc.
- Strong development and experience with distributed systems architecture including APIs.
- Deep code analysis and refactoring skills with the goal being proactive platform improvement.
- Ability to perform Root Cause Analysis and resolve short term and long-term fixes very fast.
- Ability to communicate problems/issues across multiple levels of leadership and obtain concurrence on go-forward approach quickly for time-critical issues.
- Ability to drive code review and change review sessions to ensure changes are of acceptable quality.
- Good understanding of Change Management, Problem Management, and Incident Management processes a plus.
- Ability to efficiently interpret Business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions.
- Ability to learn new Technologies and exploit them to their efficient potential
Preferred Qualifications
- Shown experience as an Agile Champion
Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits
The 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 opportunities
For 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.
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