Engineer III- Full Stack

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

From building next-generation apps and microservices in Kotlin to using AI to help protect our franchise and customers from fraud, you could be doing transformational work that brings our iconic, global brand into the future. As a part of our tech team, we could work together to bring ground-breaking and diverse ideas to life that power our digital systems, services, products and platforms. If you love to work with APIs, contribute to open source, or use the latest technologies, we’ll support you with an open environment and learning culture to grow your career.

Function Description:

American Express is looking for energetic, high-performing and highly skilled Engineers to help shape our technology and product roadmap. 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 experience for our customers and colleagues, with Big Data and batch/real-time analytical solutions leveraging transformational technologies to deliver innovative products across multiple business units.

This Engineering role is based in our Global Risk and Compliance Technology organization and will have a keen focus on platform modernization, bringing to life the latest technology stacks to support the ongoing needs of the business as well as  compliance against global regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contributes to design, development, troubleshooting, debugging, evaluating, modifying, deploying, and documenting software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications
• Function as an active member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Participate in code reviews and automated testing
• Debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation
• Support and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
• Automate deployments in test or production environments
• Explores new automation techniques to refine the agility, speed and quality of engineering initiatives and efforts
• Defines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications provided. Takes part in reviews of own work and handles work efficiently.

Skills & Qualifications:

Must Have:

• 1 to 3 years of work experience in software design and implementation using Java.
• Some experience with React, Redux, Node.js
• 1+ Experience in Java. Spring/Spring boot
• Hands on experience of Core Java concepts including Collection, multithreading, Java 8 features
• Hands on experience in building REST APIs
• Experience in RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Good to Have:

• Experience in Microservice
• Experience working in JavaScript and able to demonstrate good JavaScript knowledge.
• Able to demonstrate good web fundamentals & knowledge of DOM
• Experience writing adaptive and responsive UI applications
• Experience with TDD, BDD and unit testing.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment and their frameworks
• Working in an Agile or SAFe development environment is a plus
• Hands on experience of using UI Visualization library