Backend Engineer - GAR

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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.  American Express 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 of #TeamAmex.

How will you make an impact in this role?

There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express. As an Engineer, Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing:

• Function as a member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development and test practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation.
• Perform technical development for 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 solution architects and architecture governance technical team for solution development and design reviews
• Typically spends 60-70% of time writing code and testing, and remainder of time managing team and stakeholders through ongoing product/platform release sprints
• Perform code reviews, make design decisions and ensure constant focus on quality and clearing technical debt items in the backlog.
• Build & Maintain new RESTful APIs on Cloud Platform (eCP) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using BigQuery, BigTables, MapR DB and any NoSQL DBs.
• Improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability of our data pipelines.
• Work on cross-functional initiatives and collaborate with Engineers across the organizations.
• Build CICD pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
• Build automation for application changes and deployment for faster time to market.
• Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
• Perform ongoing refactoring of code, quality assurance and testing, applying best practice methodologies and processes.
• Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies & ideas in development / test area.
• Provide continuous support for ongoing application availability.
• Collaborate/influence within and across teams to create successes with an innovative mindset and challenge the status quo.

Minimum Qualifications

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other related field (or has equivalent work experience).
• 8+ years of experience in software development and quality assurance.
• 5+ years of experience in developing RESTful APIs using Java and building large scale distributed applications
• Hands-on experience with GCP, Cloud Platform, DataProc, Composer, Airflow, BigQuery, BigTables, Spring Boot, Micro-services, Kafka, Solace, IBM MQ, DB2 Stored Procedures.
• Solid understanding of JSON Schemas and RESTful APIs is a plus
• Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing.
• Good communication skills - able to explain technical concepts to designers, product managers and business partners in ways that are meaningful to them

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience of writing applications for deployment on cloud environment including OpenShift and Docker containers.
• Experience on RESTful API design and implementation is a plus
• 1-2 years of experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) / Behavior Driven Development (BDD) practices, unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing and web service testing.
• Experience with automated release management using Maven, Git, Jenkins.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery environment
• Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels across functions, from both technical and non-technical perspectives alike.

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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