Senior Backend Engineer

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. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex

There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express. In this role, you will help deliver business services that power omni-channel experiences across all markets American Express operates in. Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing:

• Functioning as senior member of an Agile team helping drive consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation).
• Analyzing business features and user stories and refining with the Product Owner to appropriately support design and build activities.
• Working with Product Owners to prioritize features and manage a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues.
• Performing all technical development for assigned applications including architecture, design, developing prototypes, writing new code and API's and performing unit and assembly testing of developed software also as needed.
• Hand-on architecture working closely with technical architects and architecture governance technical team for solution development and design reviews.
• Supporting integration and performance tests and providing demo of results to technical and product partners
• Performing peer code reviews, making deliberate short and long term design decisions and keeping constant focus on clearing technical debt items in the backlog
• Enabling the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
• Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the core and associated domains.
• Typically spends 30-50% of time writing code and testing, and remainder of time managing team and stakeholders through ongoing product/platform release sprints.
• Works closely with product owners on blueprints and annual planning of feature sets that impact multiple platforms and products.
• Manages and mentors teams of junior and senior engineers through ongoing sprints.
• Communicating to stakeholders and business partners on the solution and the implementation aspects at the technical and/or functional level appropriate for the situation
• Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by demonstrating risk taking.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years of development experience with Java (minimum Java 8)
• Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing.
• Strong technical capability with an intense desire to learn new skills and industry trends.
• Collaborative work ethics to thrive on peer support and taking pride in of products and capabilities delivered as a team.
• Ability to balance priorities and break down complex problems to manageable chunks that can be delivered incrementally.
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Micro-services, Relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages and proven ability to understand and use complex data structures and associated components.
• Deep understanding of multithreading concepts with experience of developing robust and scalable distributed server-side applications and algorithms
• Must be willing and able to express new ideas, concerns and opinions directly to wider team including tech and business partners in team meetings in person or video/tele conferencing.
• Desirable to have experience of writing applications for deployment on cloud environment including OpenShift and Docker containers.
• Desirable to have experience with performance and monitoring tools e.g. Splunk and App Dynamics
• Analytical skills and knack of looking for non-obvious solutions.
• Should have worked on RESTful API design and implementation.
• Working experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Implementation or working experience of Continuous Integration and Continues Delivery using tools and automation capabilities such as JUnit, Mocking, TestNG, Jenkins, Git, Stash and Jira
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field.

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Event Driven and Reactive Programming. 
• Knowledge of Function As a Service (FaaS) & Lambda
• Deep experience with Couchbase
• Experience developing solutions in Payments and/or financial systems.

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.