Senior Engineer - GAR

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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 of #TeamAmex.

American Express is a global service company, providing customers with exceptional access to products and experiences that enrich lives and build business success.

Each day, we make it easier, safer and more rewarding for consumers and businesses to purchase the things they need and for merchants to sell their goods and services, enabling them to do and achieve more.

This is an opportunity to be part of an exciting program of modernization, driven by an energetic new team of high-performers. This group is nimble and creative with the power to shape our technology and product roadmap. 

A successful applicant will be able to design and build software that meets the needs of the business and improve upon it through operational ownership. Use the right tools for the job, and build software that works well and efficiently within the overall system architecture. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Analyses requirements/ user stories to appropriately support design activities
• Performs all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications, including developing prototypes, writing new code and creating API's
• Performs hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems 
• Functions as Senior member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development practices - tools, common components, and documentation 
• Typically spends a minimum of 60% of time writing code and testing, and remainder of time collaborating with stakeholders through ongoing product/platform releases 
• Designs and builds integration components and interfaces in collaboration with Architects and Infrastructure Engineers as necessary 
• Contributes to decisions about tools, methods and approaches 
• Performs unit and assembly testing of software components including the design, implementation, evaluation, and execution of unit and assembly tests 
• Conducts code reviews and builds test automation 
• Debugs software components, identifies, fixes and verifies remediation of code defects 
• Performs ongoing refactoring of code and continuously improves product 
• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies 
• Provides continuous support for ongoing application availability 
• Works closely with product owners on blueprints and annual planning of feature sets that impact multiple platforms and products 
• Works with product owners to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues

 Required skills:

• ·    Demonstrated experience leading teams of engineers
• Hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing 
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases 
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related field required; advanced degree preferred
• Leads specification and design of large or complex systems 
• Reviews others' systems designs to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, and integration of multiple systems and technology 
• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
• Evaluates and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and assesses and manages associated risks 
• Takes technical responsibility for all stages in the software development process 
• Provides advice, guidance and assistance to Engineers and peers as required 
• Takes part in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work 
• Demonstrates expertise in system components and configuration to enable functionality design that meets American Express Technology standards and minimizes impacts to upstream and downstream systems 
• Expertly skilled in the agile delivery methodology
• Experience in Enterprise JAVA/J2EE Technologies using Core Java, Spring Core, Spring JDBC template, Hibernate, Spring Batch etc.
• Good understanding and working knowledge of API Design, Implementation and Security and Microservice architecture
• Experience in Enterprise JAVA/J2EE Technologies using Core Java, Spring Core, Spring JDBC template, Hibernate, Spring Batch etc.
• Good Understanding of TDD and BDD frameworks 
• Good Understanding of Version Control System i.e. GIT, etc. using tools like Source Tree, GIT Bash, Bitbucket etc.
• Good Understanding and working knowledge of Build Automation Tools and Frameworks
• Good communication skills, both written and spoken is essential 
• Good relationship building skills with both Technology and Product Owner teams

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.

American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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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