Backend Engineer

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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

There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express. In this role, you will help deliver business services that power omni-channel experiences across all markets American Express operates in. Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing:

• Function as a core member of an Agile scrum team working on prioritized product backlog.
• Analyzing business features and user stories and refining with the Product Owner to appropriately support design and build activities.
• Performing all technical development for assigned applications including architecture, design, developing prototypes, writing new code and API's and performing unit and assembly testing of developed software also as needed.
• Hand-on architecture working closely with technical architects and architecture governance technical team for solution development and design reviews.
• Supporting integration and performance tests and providing demo of results to technical and product partners
• Performing peer code reviews, making deliberate short and long term design decisions and keeping constant focus on clearing technical debt items in the backlog
• Enabling the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments through sound engineering practices and relevant tooling
• Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the core and associated domains.
• Communicating to stakeholders and business partners on the solution and the implementation aspects at the technical and/or functional level appropriate for the situation
• Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by demonstrating risk taking.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years of development experience with Java (minimum Java 8)
• Solid understanding of distributed system architecture and building resilient & fault tolerant systems
• Collaborative work ethics to thrive on peer support and taking pride in of products and capabilities delivered as a team.
• Ability to balance priorities and break down complex problems to manageable chunks that can be delivered incrementally.
• Passion for learning new technologies, industry trends and deep technical curiosity.
• Hands-on experience with Micro-services, Relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages and proven ability to understand and use complex data structures and associated components.
• Must be willing and able to express new ideas, concerns and opinions directly to wider team including tech and business partners in team meetings in person or video/tele conferencing.
• Desirable to have experience of writing applications for deployment on cloud environment including OpenShift and Docker containers.
• Desirable to have experience with performance and monitoring tools e.g. Splunk and App Dynamics
• Analytical skills and knack of looking for non-obvious solutions.
• Should have worked on RESTful API design and implementation.
• Working experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Implementation or working experience of Continuous Integration and Continues Delivery using tools and automation capabilities such as JUnit, Mocking, TestNG, Jenkins, Git, Stash and Jira
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field.

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Event Driven and Reactive Programming and frameworks e.g. Vert.X
• Knowledge of Function As a Service (FaaS) & Lambda
• Deep experience with Couchbase
• Experience developing solutions in Payments and/or financial systems.

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

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 
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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