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 include, but are not limited to:
• Contribute to design, development, troubleshooting, debugging, evaluating, modifying, deploying, and document software and systems.
• Designing solutions for complex business and technical requirements.
• Building scalable, highly resilient software with adequate logging.
• 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.
• Primary focus is spent in writing code, API specs, conducting code reviews & testing in ongoing sprints or doing proof of concepts/automation tools.
• Implement the best software practices that produce maintainable code, including usability patterns, code style conformity, integration and unit testing.
• 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.
• Demonstrate ability to investigate problems quickly to find root causes and implement required fixes.
• Partner with Technology leaders, Product Owners & Business SMEs to ensure an aligned solution is designed.
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo.
Minimum Qualifications
• 10+ years of software development experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working in Agile, Scrum, or other rapid application development teams to deliver technology solutions on time and to spec.
• 6+ years of experience with at least 2 or more in - Java/SpringBoot/Python/PySpark/Scala/GoLang
• Hands on experience with large scale code bases and applications with very high-volume transactions dealing with but not limited to –
o Reactive Programming methodology
o Event Driven Programming methodology
o Business and Domain Driven Programming
o Work in a large team environment where the common code is shared and curated with utmost care
• Extensive Experience on tools/frameworks/utilities listed but not limited to –
o Git, Maven
o Jacoco, Sonar
o Cucumber, BDD features, Gherkin, Glue
o Kafka, MQ, Pub/Sub
o PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Redis
o Cloud Computing, Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience working with Cloud-native applications would be preferred.
• Experience working in Credit Card domain would be preferred.
• Proven ability to work autonomously and adjust quickly to shifting priorities, multiple demands, and rapid change.
• Experience in building Continuous delivery pipeline, Integration and Deployment, DevOps, and test-driven development.
• Strong analytical skills and rigor - ability to source and interpret data/facts in a meaningful way.
Preferred Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in computer science / Information Technology or 10+ years of Industry experience.
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.