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. Amex 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.

Key Responsibilities

Software Development

• Beginner level ability in software development, such coding assignments

• Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)

• Writing code and unit tests, automation, and conducting code reviews and automate testing.

• Debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation.

• Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.

• Automate deployments in test or production environments.

• Automatically scale applications based on demand projections.

Leadership

• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.

• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking ability.

Range of Impact/Influence

• Accountable for team completing work you’re leading and work you are doing as agreed upon.

• Accountable to team for delivery of quality work.

• Serving as a core member of an agile team that leads user story analysis and elaboration, designs and develops software applications.

• Responsible for the applications architecture / technical design & build, work/coordinate with other team’s architect, engineers, and vendors as necessary

• Identifying exciting technology modernization opportunities for adopting new open source-based technology tools & products to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges.
• Performing ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts, and delivering continuous improvement.

• Working with product managers to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues.

• Contribution in complex Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence project implementations

• Experience in working directly with business customers.

• Defining and implementing data integration architecture

• Manage your own time, and work well both independently and as part of a team.

• Quickly generate and updating proof of concepts for testing and team feedback

• Embrace emerging standards while promoting best practices.

Minimum Qualifications

• Up to 7+ years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent is required with hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing.

• Successful engineering and deployment of enterprise-grade technology products in an Agile environment

• Large scale software product engineering experience with contemporary tools and delivery methods in a complex environment (i.e. DevOps, CD/CI, Agile, etc.)

• Hands-on delivery experience in the in-memory frameworks and fundamental components of the assigned portfolio’s primary technology stack(s) (some of them include Java/J2EE, NodeJS, Python, Big Data Technologies, Apache Flink, Apache Beam, Apache Spark, SingleStore, Postgres, No-SQL Databases, Relational Databases, JSON, XML, REST, Kafka etc.)

• Experience in jobs orchestration using Airflow and Automic

• Analyze, debug and fix the Apache Beam and Flink data pipelines orchestration, quality and performance

• Highly proficient in SQL and PL/SQL

• Hands-on delivery experience in the high-performance enterprise grade APIs and microservices using multiple architectural and design patterns

• Experience as a leader within a Technology organization and/or in a product development company with experience that compliments the software product portfolio etc.

• Creation of Engineering Best Practices adopted by a large segment of the technology organization

• Creation of tools or other technologies that become integral to the operation of the platform

• Successful assimilation of new technology into an existing technology stack

• Outstanding influential and collaboration skills; ability to drive consensus and tangible outcomes, demonstrated by breaking down silos and fostering cross communication process

• Technical expertise related to the core components of the Technology Platform’s tech stack, as well as delivery optimization techniques in a ‘total dev’ continuous delivery environment

• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners

Soft Skills:

• Highly collaborative, self-starter, technical contributor, outstanding communication practices

• Data analysis experience is a bug plus

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledgeable and experienced with in-memory computation and data virtualization tools & techniques 

• Knowledge of GCP, Kubernetes and Docker.

• Experience in memory first databases like SingleStore

• Experience with DevOps tools, automating engineering and operational tasks 

• Experience with a broad range of software languages and Financial business domain knowledge will be a plus

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

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.  

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