Senior Engineer - atWork

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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.

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 on #TeamAmex.

American Express @ Work helps large and global companies manage their Corporate Card and Corporate Purchasing Card programs more efficiently online. From performing everyday administrative tasks and account maintenance, to accessing reports and utilizing reconciliation solutions, @ Work enables fast, efficient, and effective corporate card program management resulting in time and cost savings for our customers.

We’re looking for a Senior Engineer to join the @ Work Tiger Team. This small but mighty team will work across the entire @ Work platform used by American Express Commercial customers around the world. We want someone with strong technical skills and creativity. You should hold the technical quality bar high, enjoy solving tough problems, and working with new technologies. You should not be shy about sharing your ideas and be obsessive about user experience.  The @ Work Tiger team is charged with automating the CI/CD pipeline; creating a baseline for quality, testing, and automation; and building out observability and monitoring across the entire stack. Once this is in place, Tiger Team will work on proofs of concept and special projects to advance the evolution of the technology stack.

If you have the talent and desire to develop innovative products and services at a rapid pace, work as part of a customer centric organization, serving our customers seamlessly across the globe through various channels, join our team!

Key Responsibilities

Software Development

• Perform technical aspects of software development
• Function as a leader on a software engineering team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Lead code reviews and automated testing
• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation
• Leads the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
• Empower teams to automate deployments in test or production environments
• Empower teams to automatically scale applications based on demand projections
• Ensure team adheres to security and regulatory best practices

Leadership

• Takes accountability for the success of the team achieving their goals
• Drives the team’s strategy and prioritizes initiatives
• Influence team members by challenging status quo, demonstrating risk taking, and implementing creative ideas
• Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analyzing your workflow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.
• Mentor and guide team members to success within the team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 6+ years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience
• Extensive hands-on experience with the design and development of complex, large scale distributed applications and products that require a deep understanding of architectural
• patterns, software development best practices, relational and non-relational databases, and automated testing
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience.
• Hands-on coding experience in the following technology environment - React, Redux, Angular, NodeJS, GraphQL, REST based APIs, Java, Couchbase, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Akamai, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Scrum, Kanban, or another Agile application development methodology
• Demonstrated experience coaching, mentoring, and developing technical professionals.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills required, with ability to create and deliver effective presentations to upper management and architects across the organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with testing tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, WebDriver IO, Karate, Junit, JMeter, LoadRunner, PostMan, WireMock, and others
• Experience with logging and observability tools such as DynaTrace, DataDog, Prometheus, Splunk, New Relic, and others
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitHub CoPilot, Jenkins, Sonar, and others · Experience with Cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Advanced degree

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 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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