Engineer - Java , Microservices

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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. 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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

As an Engineer in Cloud Engineering, you will be a key engineer in the development of observability telemetry architecture and systems that span multiple clouds. You will work on software initiatives, rapid POCs, analysis of software products, and real-time multi Petabyte high throughput low latency applications.

• Support engineers and project managers in rapid development and deployment
• Troubleshoot production issues by engaging support teams and assist in the resolution of issues; formulate action plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; perform root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues, and create/update support Runbooks
• Drive both high level and detailed design, conduct design reviews, and feature implementation
• Actively participate in the design of new systems and the redesign of existing systems to meet product requirements, changing needs
• Engage and work with cross-functional leaders to understand and help define business principles, goals and strategy within scope of responsibility.
• Communicate to senior leaders with regard to strategy direction and changes.
• Mentor engineers and solution architects to ensure technology complexities are understood very clearly to implement solutions expeditiously with high quality.
• Perform Rapid POCs to prove software initiatives and validate ideas for large multi cloud observability platform deployments

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience 5 -8 Years
• Strong grasp of data structures and algorithms
• Strong hands-on experience in Java with extensive understanding of the JVM and garbage collectors and JVM memory model
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale distributed data intensive platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability.
• Strong experience in maintaining high throughput, low latency applications.
• Strong written, verbal communications, presentation skills, leadership, problem solving and analytical skills.
• Proven collaboration skills along with the ability to influence without authority
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field required; Advanced Degree preferred, with 8 or more years of experience in software engineering, design and architecture .

Preferred Qualifications :

• Hands on experience with Kotlin and/or Go
• Experience in working with Observability standards OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with micro services architectures and service mesh technologies.
• Hands on experience in the following: Vert.x, Spring, Envoy, gRPC, protobuf, JSON, CouchBase, Cassandra, Redis, Consul, Jenkins, docker, Kubernates, OpenShift, Elastic Stack, Kafka, Spark

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.