Senior Engineer - GCS Tech

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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.

In Global Commercial Services Technology (GCST), we develop software products and platforms across Small Business, Mid and Large Market and Global Commercial Clients. Our goals center around furthering the company's priorities of building on our strong position in commercial payments, whilst making American Express an essential part of our B2B customers’ digital lives. We continuously strive to optimize the level of innovation, quality, and speed with which we deliver across many products and channels including Sales, Client and Individual Customer Acquisition, Digital Servicing, Commercial Lending, B2B Payment Products, Remittance Processing and Commercial Data. Together with multiple Product and Engineering teams outside of GCST, we work collectively to deliver enterprise capabilities to our B2B customers.

As a part of our tech team, we could work together to bring ground-breaking and diverse ideas to life that power the digital systems, services, products and platforms that millions of customers around the world depend on. If you love to work with APIs, contribute to open source, or use the latest technologies, we’ll support you with an open environment and learning culture to grow your career.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Function as a leader on an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices. Lead code reviews and automated testing
• Contribute to high level design as well as detailed design of complex subsystems with emphasis in high availability and low latency.
• Perform technical aspects of software development for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments
• Understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns and Reactive Patterns.
• Designing solutions that are scalable and can be delivered iteratively to maximize business value
• Writing code and unit tests, reviewing other team members’ code
• Integrate with APIs provided by different teams in American Express
• Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies
• Expertise in the definition and implementation of effective software engineering practices and processes that result in high speed to market: i.e. open source style project maintainers, PR review process, issue triage, code reviews, code contribution metrics definition, test automation strategy, CI/CD optimization, etc. 

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in computer science or computer engineering,
• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of experience with Java vs. 8 or higher programming
• 2+ years  UI technologies like, ReactJS,  HTML, CSS, J query
• 4+ years experience  with SQL or NOSQL databases
• 4+ years experience working in agile methodolgy
• 4+ years of Experience with GitHub, vs. control
• 4+ years experience working with Springboot and Spring Cloud

Preferred Qualifications

• Polyglot experience (Java, node.js, Python)
• Master's Degree 
• Ability to effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on solution design 
• Excellent written communication skills and ability to document technical content (moved to preferred)
• Familiarity with REST APIs and micro services design (Couchbase, Elastic Search databases preferred).
• Demonstrated experience  with continuous integration tooling such as Jenkins pipelines.
•  Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or Red Hat Openshift is a plus.
• Experience with CI tools such as CircleCI, GitHub Actions or Jenkins
• Experience with functional programming

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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