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.

American Express is embarking on an exciting transformation on building the next generation customer first ecosystem for democratizing Machine Learning in Amex on the Cloud. This includes building ad deploying reusable AI/ML components to solve unique and challenging business requirements in the space of document and image processing, NLP, Chatbots, You will be part of an energetic Machine Learning team within Technology, to drive strategic planning and a cohesive set of technology and machine learning solutions enabling data and platform transformation, by collaborating across all channel teams and the critical technology platforms that support Colleague and Customer Experiences. This position provides an opportunity to solve very interesting problems that directly and greatly impact millions of individuals worldwide. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative and intelligent products as well as services at a rapid pace, serving our colleagues and customers seamlessly across through cognitive solutions, this would be the right fit for you!

Responsibilities:

• Functioning as senior member of an Agile team helping drive consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation).
• Working closely with AI/ML Research teams, Data Scientists and Product Owners in analyzing business features and refining them to appropriately support design and build activities.
• Performing all technical development for assigned applications including architecture, design, developing prototypes, writing new code and API's and performing unit and assembly testing of developed software also as needed
• Hand-on architecture working closely with technical architects and architecture governance technical team for solution development and design reviews
• Enabling the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
• Manages and mentors teams of junior and senior engineers through ongoing sprints
• Combine Data Science and Engineering skills to solve interesting problems that directly and greatly impact millions of individuals worldwide
• Help craft the direction of machine learning and artificial intelligence at AmEx

Qualification :

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Statistics or related fields.

• 7+ years of software development experience
• Strong analytical skills and programming skills, with experience with deployment in production environment.

• 5+ years hands-on experience with the following technologies:
  • Python
  • Big Data – Spark/Hive/Hbase
  • SQL/ NoSQL
  • REST API and services

  • Cloud Technologies (Docker/Kubernetes), Reverse proxy (Envoy, Nginx), API serving framework (Flask,Gunicorn, FastAPI), Performance Monitoring tools
• One of the popular Machine Learning technologies such as such as ScikitLearn, TensorFlow, Keras etc
• Experience in specialized areas such as Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Recommendation System
• Implementation or working experience of Continuous Integration and Continues Delivery using tools and automation capabilities such as JUnit, Mocking, TestNG, Jenkins, Git, Stash and Jira
• Hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, Hadoop Ecosystem, Spark, Exposure to ML serving and Accelerators such as OpenVino, ONNX
is a plus.
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment

• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners

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.