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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.
Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.
American Express is looking for Senior Engineers to contribute to the company’s focus on building products, like @Work, to support our large and global corporate clients.@Work helps our clients manage their Corporate Card and Corporate Purchasing Card programs more efficiently online. From performing everyday administrative tasks and account maintenance, to accessing reports and using reconciliation solutions, @Work enables fast, efficient and effective program management resulting in time and cost savings for our clients.- Impact/Influence:
- Leads and mentors teams of engineers through ongoing development efforts.
- Ensures engineers adhere to team standards.
- Accountable for accurate completion and quality of all documentation and work produced by engineering team.
- Accountable for delivering a quality product that meets the customers’ needs.
- Key Responsibilities:
- Software Development
- Perform technical aspects of software development.
- Function as a leader on a software engineering team by chipping in to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation).
- Lead code reviews and automated testing.
- Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation.
- Leads the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
- Empower teams to automate deployments in test or production environments.
- Empower teams to automatically scale applications based on demand projections.
- Ensure team adheres to security and regulatory standard processes.
- Leadership
- Takes accountability for the success of the team achieving their goals.
- Drives the team’s strategy and prioritizes initiatives.
- Influence team members by challenging status quo, demonstrating risk taking, and implementing creative ideas.
- Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analyzing your workflow and chipping in to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.
- Mentor and guide team members to success within the team.
- Knowledge/Skills
- Able to communicate complex data structures and associated components.
- Designs, codes, tests, maintains, and documents application components.
- Lead reviews of colleagues' work.
- Defines test conditions based on the functional and non-functional requirements provided.
- Has deep understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s).
- Deep understanding of infrastructure, technologies, and components.
- Able to assess and interview team members to identify and develop talent.
- Making impactful changes by influencing leadership and making timely decisions.
- Monitors system performance and availability and improves software quality through root cause analysis.
- Consistent track record to influence technological growth across teams.
- Tech Stack
- Primarily React via OneApp and Java via OneData
- Cucumber, Gatlin, Karate, Jest
- AWS, GCP
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- GitHub Enterprise
- Jenkins
- Education & Experience
- 6+ years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:
- Wide breath of engineering experience.
- Confirmed experience leading teams of engineers.
- Hands-on expertise with application design, software development, and automated testing.
- Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred.
- 3+ years React.
- 3+ years Java.
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 you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
- 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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.
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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