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.
Key Responsibilities:
Contributes to design, development, solving, debugging, evaluating, modifying, deploying, and documenting software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications
Function as an active member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
Participate in code reviews and automated testing
Debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation
Support and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
Automate deployments in test or production environments
Explores new automation techniques to refine the agility, speed and quality of engineering initiatives and efforts
Defines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications provided. Takes part in reviews of own work and handles work efficiently.
Skills & Qualifications:
Experience:
• Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technology field
• 10+ years of software development experience with Java, Big Data and SQL Technologies
• Ability to effectively interpret technology and business objectives and challenges and eloquent solutions
• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
• Design, code, and implement highly scalable and reliable applications.
• Coordinate with other team's architect, engineers and vendors as vital.
• Deliver on all phases of development work from initial kick-off, setup, application development, and support.
• Identify exciting opportunities for adopting new technologies to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges
• Perform ongoing refactoring of code, using visualization and other techniques to fast track concepts, and delivering continuous improvement
• Work with product managers to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technology requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues
• Manage your own time, and work well both independently and as part of a team
• Quickly generate and update proof of concepts for testing and team feedback
• Embrace emerging standards while promoting high quality practices.
At the core of Software Engineering every member of our team must be able to demonstrate the following technology, functional, leadership and business proficiencies, including:
• Java 8 & above, SQL
• Agile Practices
• Porting/Software Configuration
• Continuous Integration and Deployment
• DevOPs and test-driven development
• Concepts of Oracle, NoSql
• Source Control
• Jenkins, Maven, XLR, JMeter
• Knowledge of Containerization concepts, Orchestration concepts
• Familiar with Open Source technologies
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.