Engineer - Java/Rest API/Spring Boot - Customer Marketing

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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.

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

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.

The U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

Joining the Customer Marketing team, this role will be focused on the delivery of innovative solutions to satisfy the needs of our business. As an agile team we work closely with our business partners to understand what they require, and we strive to continuously improve as a team. 

We pride ourselves on a culture of kindness and positivity, and a continuous focus on supporting colleague development to help you achieve your career goals.  We lead with integrity, and we emphasize work/life balance for all of our teammates.

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. Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing:

• As a part of our team, you will be developing innovative, high quality, and robust operational engineering capabilities
• Develop software in our technology stack which is constantly evolving but currently includes Java, SpringBoot and Cloud technologies
• Work with Business partners and stakeholders to understand functional requirements, architecture dependencies, and business capability roadmaps
• Create technical solution designs to meet business requirements
• Taking your place as a core member of an Agile team driving the latest development practices
• Identify and drive reengineering opportunities, and opportunities for adopting new technologies and methods
• Suggest and recommend solution architecture to resolve business problems
• Perform peer code review and participate in technical discussions with the team on the best solutions possible

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on Software Development experience in Java, Rest API, and Spring boot.
• BS or MS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical field or equivalent work experience
• Ability to implement scalable, hard-working, secure, highly available solutions.
• In depth knowledge of HTTP, HTTP Proxies, web servers and API Gateways like Apigee.
• Strong Object-Oriented Programming skills and design patterns
• Good understanding of CI/CD processes demonstrating Jenkins, SBT, XLR and Maven.
• Good knowledge and experience with configuration management tools like GitHub
• Strong expertise in SQL and database theory, and data analytics
• Strong analytical and problem-solving proficiency
• Good communication skills and teamwork
• Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Optimize application performance through code refactoring, profiling, and tuning.
• Understanding of various SDLC methodologies, particularly Agile
• Open-minded and passionate about learning new technologies.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and leverage them to their optimal potential.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of NoSQL, Messaging, and caching products such as Kafka, HBase is a plus.
• Leverage GCP platform services to build and deploy cloud-native applications.
• Big Data Components/Frameworks such as Hadoop (MapR), Spark, Yarn 

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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