Senior Engineer II

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.

About Enterprise Architecture (EA):

EA as an organization aims to set the bar for technology at American Express. The Senior Engineer in EA will be expected to do hands-on programming to develop strong architectures and work with product/business/engineering teams to design resilient, highly available, scalable distributed systems.

Responsibilities:

Ability to break down complex/high level ideas into concrete design and provide proofs of concept with hands-on engineering
Dsign and Collaborate with engineering teams in System design and scaling (CAP, Distributed Caches, Read/Write Replicas, Consistent Hashing, CQRS, CRDTs).
Disagree respectfully but commit. Bring people along. Articulate and drive change
Leverage one of the tools to document and express your ideas and designs
Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies, stay up to date with and brings in new technology. Be curious
Compliance Language
QualificationsInternal and External

Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline
10+ years of software development experience in designing and implementing large scale platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability.
Experience with Data Centric application design, Event Driven Systems, Kafka, Big Data ecosystem, Data pipelines, Stream processing systems etc. is required.
Experience with Cloud Native system design required.
Strong verbal and written communication skills for documenting design and communication different design patterns
Validated experience leading teams of engineers.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and multi-task efficiently.
Experience in the finance, regulatory reporting domain is a plus.
Experience working with Public Clouds (AWS,GCP,Azure) is a plus.
 

Every member of our team must be able to demonstrate the following technical, functional, leadership and business core competencies, including:

Agile Practices
Love dealing with fast pace, changing needs, & limited resources
Programming Languages and Frameworks – Hands on experience in some or all of the following is preferred:
Java, Database systems like Redis, Cassandra, Data streaming platforms like spark, flink, kafka, Big Data ecosystem, enterprise-grade APIs using state-of-the-art techniques and best practices (GraphQL ,REST, JSON, XML, etc.) required.

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.