Senior Engineer I - Ask Amex

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

American Express is embarking on an exciting transformation 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. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative digital and servicing products at a rapid pace, serving our customers seamlessly across physical, digital, mobile, and social media, join our transformation team! You will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering projects platform supporting our global customer base. 

Our Engineers that join our Technologies team will be assigned to one of several exciting teams that are responsible for development and management of business critical platforms. You will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering projects platform supporting our global customer base. You will be challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers. Our Software Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day. Today, innovative ideas, insight and new perspectives are at the core of how we create a more powerful, personal and fulfilling experience for all our customers.

Responsibilities: 

• Drive user story analysis and elaboration, design and develop software applications, and test and build automation tools
• Own all technical aspects of software development (architecture, design and development of systems) for assigned application.
• Perform hands-on software development, typically spending about 50% of time writing code, API specs, doing proof of concepts, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints
• Drive consistent development practices - tools and common component
• Develop deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domain
• Work with technical product managers contributing to blueprints, and assisting with annual planning of feature sets
• Identify opportunities for adopting new technology to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges
• Effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on solution design 
• Mentor engineers

Functional Skills 

• Strong analytical & strategic thinking skills. Bring in Innovations.
• Ability to interpret technical /business objectives and challenges
• Porting/Software Configuration
• Agile Methodologies
• Software development/ testing
• Object oriented analysis and design across multiple platform
• Designing High Availability applications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field required; advanced degree is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience in application architecture / design, software development, and testing, preferably in an Agile environment within a professional environment.
• Minimum 10 years of proven experience using Java, React, Vert.x, Python, Spring, Spark, Postgres, Ignite, Restful APIs, Redis, Kafka.
• Strong engineering and professional leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, partner, and collaborate multi-functionally across many engineering teams.
• Experience in conversational interfaces, chatbots, machine learning, deep learning and data analytics
• Automation Experience is a Plus

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.