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?
Software Development
Beginner level ability insoftware 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
Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent is required with hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing.
Up to 4+ years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:
Profound Knowledgebase with Java, Spring, Spring-Boot Open source and building RESTful APIs
Expert Java; fluency with Java 8 streams.
Knowledgeable and experienced with real time framework, data streaming like Kafka, Filnk, Spark), in-memory computation and data virtualization tools & techniques.
Knowledgeable and experienced with scripting languages such as Python is also preferred.
Strong UNIX shell scripting skills
Thorough understanding of XML, JSON, Web Service technologies, and data structure fundamentals
Highly proficient in SQL; Skilled at optimizing large, complicated SQL statements; Strong SQL skills including complex query building and query performance tuning. Understanding of Indexes, keys, shard and distributed databases.
Experience with DevOps tools, automating engineering and operational tasks.
Strong Knowledge of logical and physical data modeling (relational, dimensional data modeling)
Familiarity with Time Series Databases, monitoring, instrumentation, observability tools and concepts
Provide technical recommendations to improve efficiency of Data Management /ETL process.
Strong dB query optimization & performance tuning skills. The ability to analyze and resolve performance issues within variety of operational environments quickly and efficiently.
Create/ maintain database objects such as tables, views, indexes, constraints, and SQL code, and stored procedures and shell scripts.
Familiar with Data Warehouse concept, ETL design, development, and maintenance with successful implementation of large Enterprise BI solutions
Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate
Knowledge in objected oriented analysis and design across a variety of platforms.
Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing.
Ensure data quality and integrity within each data set and support linkage to other appropriate data sets in consistent manner. This includes testing and validating any new database design against previous data structures.
Demonstrated ability to analyze data concerning production volumes, batch schedules, and i/o statistics.
Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners.
Experience with a broad range of software languages and financial business domain knowledge will be a plus.
Other Competencies:
Flexibility
Collaboration & Partnership
Continuous Improvement
Courage
Curiosity
Resourcefulness
Tenacity
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.