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.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform key aspects of software development for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments.
• Function as a leader on an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation.
• Leads deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
• Automate deployments in test or production environments.

Leadership

• Takes accountability for the success of the team achieving their goals.
• Drives the team’s strategy and prioritizes initiatives.
• Influence team members by challenging status quo, demonstrating risk taking, and implementing innovative ideas.
• Be an efficiency multiplier for the team by analyzing and collaborating to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.
• Mentor and guide team members to success within the team

Minimum Qualifications

Up to 10+ years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:

• Hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing
• Experience in Agile development methodology
• Expertise with HTML, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript Frameworks React and NodeJS
• Detailed understanding of XML, SOAP, JSON, web services technologies, and data structure fundamentals, with experience in multi-threaded programming
• Experience with continuous integration/deployment (Jenkins, Maven, XLR, Cobertura, Mockito, SOAPUI, JMeter).
• Experience with RESTful API design and development using Java, J2EE, node, Spring Boot, Relation DBMS
• Expertise in objected oriented analysis and design across a variety of platforms
• Ability to effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on architecture and solution design
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required, advanced degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Collaborates with leadership across multiple teams to define solution requirements and implementation Engineering & Architecture
• Demonstrate expertise to help team members overcome software development challenges.
• Solves coding problems outside of day-to-day responsibilities.

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.