Engineer - Micro Services - Enterprise Architecture

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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.

In Enterprise Architecture we have an obsessive focus on building best in class APIs to support all capabilities across the enterprise. As we focus heavily on performance, security, and maintainability, in order to provide our card members a best-in-class experience, we are seeking a highly energetic, passionate and experienced engineer to drive API Engineering into the future.

The individual will help to build a companywide strategy for API Reliability, Maintenance & Development. Also envision frameworks to empower our API platform reliability.


Responsibilities:

• Maintain & develop new API frameworks in technologies such as REST and gRPC
• Ensure the site reliability of frameworks to 5 – 9’s
• Help pivot toward serverless, modern APIs & Organizational design patterns
• Build & manage platforms to help teams across the company quickly deploy A2A/B2B/C2B services
• Evangelize the API engineering transformation at an accelerated pace
• Collaborate with technology peers and leaders to gain strategic alignment
• Foster innovation and experimentation
• Responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning
• Create a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration topics

Qualifications – Internal/External

• University degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• Software engineering experience, with emphasis on managing high volume and highly scalable systems
• Knowledge of automation process to bring in a high reliable and zero downtime platform
• Capability to manage environment provisioning and DevOps pipeline setup
• Experience with the following technologies: Java, Javascript, REST, OpenAPI, Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, gRPC, and other Cloud Native technologies.
• A firm understanding of networking principles: DNS, TCP, TLS, HTTP 2
• Experience developing architecture and E2E solutions that conform to requirements for privacy, security and compliance
• The ability to look at code and derive time and space complexity
• Deep experience with multiple open-source solutions
• The ability to learn new technologies quickly and teach them to others.

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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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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