Engineer I

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.
The Global Accounts Receivables team is part of the Enterprise Platforms . The team plays a key role in the development of New Card Products, Benefit Programs, Lending and Commerce initiatives that help grow revenue, deepen customer engagement, and increase card member value. The team drives the development of products and software that deliver on business growth while increasing speed to market, enhancing customer experience, and building out our global next generation cloud based microservices platform for Accounts Receivable.
How will you make an impact in this role?
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.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Contribute to design, development, troubleshooting, debugging, evaluating, modifying, deploying, and document software and systems.
Develop software including writing code and ongoing refactoring of code & drives continuous improvement in code structure & quality.
Primary focus is spent writing code, API specs, conducting code reviews & testing in ongoing sprints or doing proof of concepts/automation tools.
Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
Functions as a core member of an Agile team driving User story analysis & elaboration, design and development of software applications, testing & builds automation tools.
Implement the best software practices that produce maintainable code, including usability patterns, code style conformity, integration and unit testing.
Design, code, test, maintain, and document applications.
Take part in reviews of own work and reviews of colleagues' work.
Intermediate knowledge of infrastructure technologies and component.
Working knowledge of CICD Tools
Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.
Demonstrate ability to develop and document technical and functional specifications and analyze software and system processing flows.
Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo.

Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science / Information Technology, or related field.
5 - 7 years of hands on software development experience.
Experience working in Agile, Scrum, or other rapid application development frameworks to deliver high quality technology solutions.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
3+ years of strong hands on experience in Java 8 and above
Strong understanding of OOPS, lambdas and functional programming concepts.
In depth understanding and knowledge of Spring Boot framework.
Hands on experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate.
Hands on experience in developing APIs / Micro Services
Well versed in Test driven development using frameworks like Junit.
Hands on experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, or equivalent relational databases.
Hands on experience with Cassandra or any No-SQL database
Hands on experience with code quality tools like Sonar
Hands on experience in design & development of scalable & reliable systems.
Desirable to have experience of writing applications for development on cloud environment including OpenShift and Docker containers.
Experience in building Continuous delivery pipeline, Integration and Deployment, DevOps, and test-driven development.
Experience in supporting mission critical platforms with high levels of availability and service continuity.
Good understanding of cloud-based architecture and distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Event Driven and Reactive Programming and frameworks like Vertx & Spring Reactor.
Experience with Behavior-driven development (BDD) using Cucumber framework.
Experience developing solutions in Accounts Receivables systems.

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.