Backend Engineer - Java - Digital payments

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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 on #TeamAmex.

The Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.

The Backend Engineer, American Express for Digital payments will be an individual contributor who may ensure optimal design/architecture of the web components that power our digital experiences which are crucial for our customers as we strive to be essential to their everyday lives. Continuing to drive innovation and delivery in digital channels is a key part of the strategy for continuing to delight customers. 

Our Software Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day. Today, innovative ideas, insight and new perspectives are at the core of how we create a more powerful, personal and fulfilling experience for all our customers. So, if you’re interested in a career creating breakthrough software and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further.

Responsibilities:
    • Performs hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems 
    • Finding opportunities for adopting new technologies
    • Work with Staff Engineer to define solution requirements and technical implementation approach
    • Drive both high-level and detailed technical designs and conduct design reviews as needed
    • Actively participate in team and company-wide architecture and engineering discussions and forums
    • Analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software for use in local, networked, cloud-based or Internet-related environments
    • Responsible for health and quality of the code across the portfolio, including leadership over SCM, functional testing, and CI/CD tool integration
 
Qualifications:

    • Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical subject area
    • 3+ years of software development experience
    • Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions
    • Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
    • Skilled in the delivery methodology used by the team(Agile, Scrum, AgileXP, Test-Driven Development, Waterfall, etc.) 
    • Active engineering experience in a complex environment with ability to deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems
    • Expertise in building fault-tolerant, scalable solutions and system design at a global enterprise scale 
    • 3+ Years of experience with Java, Reactive Programming using RxJava, Vert.x
    • 3+ Expertise with integrating RESTful, GraphQL APIs
    • Experience working with database technologies including NoSQL DBs
    • Experience with Kotlin programming language is a plus
      • Past working experiences with other languages are a plus

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.

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