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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

·       Owns the development and testing aspect of the software development for assigned applications.

·       Functions as a member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development and test practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation.

·       Primary focus (80%+) is spent writing code, unit testing, test automation, quality assurance & doing automation testing in ongoing sprints.

·       Review requirements specification for development, defects, performance, reliability, scalability and set up and maintain the environment.

·       Responsible for performing code reviews, quality checks, implementing automated testing to gain efficiencies.

·       Implementing proof of concepts and new technologies to progress the efficiencies of the technical landscape.

·       Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains

·       Performs ongoing refactoring of code, quality assurance and testing, applying best practice methodologies and processes.

·       Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies & ideas in development / test area.

·       Provides continuous support for ongoing application availability

·       Collaborate/influence within and across teams to create successes with an innovative mindset to challenge the status quo.

Minimum Qualifications

·       Degree in computer science, computer science engineering or confirmed experience.

·       Minimum 10 to 15 years of software development experience in a professional environment working with Java technologies - Core Java , Java 8, Spring, Spring Boot, RESTful micro services, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Cassandra, Kafka, and RESTful API's.

Experience with AMEX RDT/CAS is a great plus 

·       Hands-on experience with application design, software development and automated testing

·       Strong foundation in Data Structures and algorithms.

·       Design and implement innovative solution/framework that will improve software engineering velocity, observability, infrastructure resiliency and security, and data availability

·       Experience in BDD / test-driven development, unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing, web service testing and quality assurance.

·       Good understanding of BDD & TDD practices and experience in BDD test automation using java.

·       Experience on DevOps related practices such as CI/CD, Logging, Observability, Monitoring etc.,

·       Maven/Gradle build tool knowledge is required.

·       Any cloud experience is added advantage.

·       Proficient in front end technologies, like React is added advantage

·       Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment tools such as Jenkins, GitHub

·       Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, relational or NoSQL databases.

·       Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and eloquent solutions.

·       Ability to learn and investigate new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.

·       Ability to debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation.

·       Experience working in Agile or other rapid application development methods.

·       Proficient oral and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

·       Key Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

·       Develop Test Strategies, Plans and Execution Artifacts with internal and external partners.

·       Build and use a deep understanding of the products and technology assets being tested to ensure optimal test coverage.

·       Maintain test data and environments

·       Create, review and implement test cases at various quality assurance levels: Systems Integration, Partner Integration, Regression, and Performance.

·       Work with Product Owners and Release Train Engineers to review test scenarios, validate test results and maintain documentation.

·       Design quality metrics to be gathered, collated and reported to management. Identify patterns and opportunities from the metrics to drive innovation and improvement.

·       Review requirements specifications for defects, performance, reliability, scalability, testability, usability, and security.

·       Monitor and track resolution of defects, coordinating with engineers in order to prevent, report, and resolve the issues.

·       Work with engineers to drive improvements in code quality via automated testing.

·       Find opportunities to adopt innovative testing technologies and techniques.

·       Strong verbal and written communication skills.

·       Experience working with global teams.

·       Prior experience with Credit Authorization systems.

·       Working experience in GCP

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.