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.
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:
Perform technical aspects of software development for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments.
Perform hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems.
Drive consistent development practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation.
Spend 80% of time writing code and testing, and remainder of time collaborating with stakeholders through ongoing product/platform releases.
Develop deep understanding of tie-ins with other Amex systems and platforms within the supported domains.
Perform ongoing refactoring of code, utilize visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts, and deliver continuous improvement.
Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies.
Provide continuous support for ongoing application availability.
Work with product owners to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues.
Enable business capabilities through innovation.
Research and learn new and upcoming technologies, and apply them to develop working software.
Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation.
Deploy, support, and monitor software across test, integration, and production environments.
Automatically scale applications based on demand projections.
Influence team members with innovative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking.
Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.
Minimum Qualifications
2+ years of software development experience with proven hands-on experience building data driven products.
Good in Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, complexity analysis, problem solving and diagnosis
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Adept at any one of the programming language Java/Python and Open to learn new programming languages.
Well conversant with Linux / Unix tools
Critical Factors to Success (Outcome Driven)
Technical/Platforms:
Experience in large scale platform engineering
Experience in application development and integration within one or more Cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, etc.
Understanding of Machine Learning Ecosystem with hands on experience working on Airflow, Jupyterlab, Jupyterhub, MLFlow like frameworks.
Experience with object-oriented design and coding with Python & related framework.
Proficiency on Linux.
Understanding and experience with UNIX / Shell scripting
Proficiency on distributed systems concepts like load balancing, shards, distributed transactions.
Understanding of data structures, algorithms & Design Patterns
Good To Have:
Experience building fast and scalable machine learning and analytical algorithms and executing all tasks from design to deployment and monitoring
Experience in developing Web services, micro-services, and REST
Experience working with distributed systems using Spark, Hive in Hadoop at significant scale in a production environment.
Functional:
Familiarity with design & coding across multiple platforms & languages
Strong analytical & strategic thinking skills
Ability to interpret technical /business objectives and challenges
Porting/Software Configuration
Agile Methodologies
Software development/ testing
Product Engineering Knowledge
Platform engineering knowledge (e.g. Financial Tech/Ecommerce/ Aggregator platforms)
Business Outcomes:
Design and deliver innovative AIML / Big Data platform solutions across multiple business units
Identify and adopt new technologies to enhance user experience and predict future challenges
Leadership Outcomes:
Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role's agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders.
Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings
Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity
Lead with a digital mindset and deliver the world's best customer experiences every day
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.
