Engineer II (Java + BD)

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.

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

How will you make an impact in this role?

- Demonstrated leadership in designing sustainable software products, setting development standards, automated code review process, continuous build and rigorous testing etc

 - Ability to effectively lead and communicate across 3rd parties, technical and business product managers on solution design

 - Primary focus is spent writing code, API specs, conducting code reviews & testing in ongoing sprints or doing proof of concepts/automation tools

 - Applies visualization and other techniques to fast track concepts

 - Functions as a core member of an Agile team driving User story analysis & elaboration, design and development of software applications, testing & builds automation tools

 - Works on a specific platform/product or as part of a dynamic resource pool assigned to projects based on demand and business priority

 - Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience

 - 3+ years of software development experience

 - Demonstrated experience with Agile or other rapid application development methods

 - Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design and coding

 - Demonstrated experience on these core technical skills (Mandatory)

 - Core Java, Spring Framework, Java EE

 - Relational Database (PostGreS / MySQL / DB2 etc)

 - Application design, software development and automated testing

- Demonstrated experience on these additional technical skills (Nice to Have)

    - Unix / Shell scripting

    - Python / Scala

    - Message Queuing, Stream processing (Kafka)

    - Elastic Search

    - AJAX tools/ Frameworks.

    - Web services , open API development, and REST concepts

    - Hadoop Ecosystem (HBase, Hive, MapReduce, HDFS, Pig, Sqoop etc)

    - Spark

    - Data Serialization techniques (Avro)

    - Cloud development (Micro-services)

    - Parallel & distributed (multi-tiered) systems

    - Experience with implementing integrated automated release management using tools/technologies/frameworks like Maven, Git, code/security review tools, Jenkins, Automated testing and Junit.

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.