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.

American Express is embarking on an exciting transformation driven by an energetic new team of high performers. This group is nimble and creative with the power to shape our technology and product roadmap. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative payment products and services at a rapid pace, serving our customers seamlessly across physical, digital, mobile, and social media, join our transformation team! You will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering world-class cardmember experiences.

• Produce high quality code to develop new features and resolve bugs
• Write meaningful and extensive tests to demonstrate that our code meets our users’ requirements
• Ensure that the application is flexible, performant, and able to scale to meet our global users demands
• Ability to work effectively independently and as part of an agile team to help the team achieve its goals
• Critically review code as part of our pull request process
• Deploy applications to test and production environments using CICD tools (i.e. Jenkins and/or Github Hooks)
• Contribute creatively to the design of new work and be comfortable challenging the decisions and architecture of the application

• University degree in a related field (i.e., computer science or computer engineering) and / or equivalent industry experience
• Experience working as part of an agile engineering team and contributing to regular agile ceremonies
• Experience working with Java 17+ and JavaScript and Typescript a plus.
• Hands on experience in API development
• Programming and testing experience with ReactJS a plus
• An understanding of cloud + CI / CD technologies, and how to get code into production quickly and reliably
• Experience working with Microservice architecture and event-based systems
• Experience working with Git on small to medium sized teams.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL datastores, including PostgreSQL, Couchbase and Redis.
• Experience developing high performing, high through put REST APIs 
• Experience working with Kafka
• Experience with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins and GitHub actions.
• Experience with automated build and test frameworks.
• Experience with container and container orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes a plus 
• Strong analytical, problem-solving/quantitative skills
• Willing to take risks, experiment, and share fresh perspectives
• Aptitude for learning and applying programming concepts.
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners

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 
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) 
• 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

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.