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.
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.
How will you make an impact in this role?
Functions as a member of an agile team that adopts and helps shape consistent development practices.
Works with product owners to analyze and understand system requirements.
Contributes to design, development, testing, debugging, evaluating, modifying, deploying, and documentation of web-based software and systems.
Drives continuous improvement in code structure & quality.
Enable and conduct the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across Dev, Test, and Production environments using CI/CD tool automation.
Implement the best software practices that produce maintainable code, including usability patterns, code style conformity, integration, and unit testing.
Develops and document technical and functional specifications and analyze software and system processing flows.
Influences team members with new ideas to "challenge the status" quo positively.
Automates the administers the configuration of SaaS applications.
Strategic thinking and problem-solving
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
Communicates effectively with Technical, Operational, and Business stakeholders.
3 + years of hands-on software development experience in a professional environment.
Hands-on expertise with Java, Python, Spark and other scripting languages.
Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery, Gel Script, React).
Experience working with one or more of the following database technologies: Postgres SQL, MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL, NoSQL DBs.
Knowledge of common CI/CD and build tools and automation concepts.
Experience with creating and consuming restful API's using JSON within a Microservice or SOA like architectures.
Educated on good UI/UX practices and concepts.
Exposure to distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
Familiar with Agile SDLC processes and concepts.
Must be proactive, curious, flexible, and results driven.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Rally or Jira software
Experience with Broadcom's Clarity product
Experience with .NET/SQL in addition to the Java stack
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.