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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.
How will you make an impact in this role?
The individual will be required to collaborate with numerous partners including Amex application teams, infrastructure support teams, Database administrator team and various product and support vendors.
Organizational Context: Member of a database management or database support team reporting to Engineering Director, or Director of Service Delivery.
We are looking for a highly skilled and self-motivated senior developer to provide solutions for the internal and external automation efforts driven by the team. In this role, you will be part of a development team responsible for identifying cases for automation in the database area, building reusable and rapidly deployable automations solutions to optimize and reduce manual efforts of DBA tasks.
You will be joining our global technology’s Database Operations team in American Express as a software developer focus on automation.
Responsibilities:
- Understand database administration tasks, monitoring tools, flows and identify opportunities for automation
- Partners with existing developers and DBO leads to understand team’s automation needs and build and test new products and features
- Help drive a multi-year software development plan, prioritize, and track deliverables
- Translate user requirements into functioning UI experience
- Design features, solve problems, debug, document and develop software and systems that meet the needs of internal and external users
- Build reusable cross platform components, reusable scripts, front-end libraries, and back-end API’s for integrating with dozens of internal Amex systems
- Create test automation frameworks for routine DBA tasks
- Make collaboration essential through detailed code reviews and knowledge sharing with the team
- Put emphasis on reusing modules that others have already built on the One Amex platform
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field.
- 4+ years of Full-stack engineering experience in building web applications revolving around technologies such as JavaScript, React JS, Node JS, Spring boot, etc.
- 3+ years of development experience with ansible, python, shell scripting and bash
- 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools including GIT, Jenkins
- Experience in developing front-end applications using React, Redux, and JavaScript
- In-depth knowledge and experience with Application Design, building Microservices, Testing capabilities, and RESTful API design and implementations.
- Experience with DBMS (Postgres, Oracle) is plus
- Good understanding on db monitoring tools like Oracle Enterprise Manager, Pg Admin, SQL developer is plus
- Experience in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
- Experience with one or more logging and monitoring tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus is a plus
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools is a plus (ELF, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Hands-on coding experience with One App and One Data is a plus
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with team members
Experience in one of the public cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and/or Azure is preferred
Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $150,000.00 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 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 work in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days).
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