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.

• Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large-scale enterprise Microservice applications • Expertise in Go, Kafka, Microservices REST APIs• Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments.
• Partners with product team and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver new features/improvements to the platform.
• Establish and accepts responsibility for engineering practices across teams for example the code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective.
• Experience writing software in Go.
• Experience with data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Exposure to Event driven architecture.
• Develop Unit tests/Component test cases using Go.
• Demonstrated ability to design, train, fine-tune, and optimize REST API
• Exposure in building cloud-native platforms on modern tech stack: AWS, Java, Spring Framework, RESTful API, and container-based application.
• Ability to learn new tools and paradigms in data engineering and science.
• Proven experience attracting, hiring, retaining, and leading top engineering talent.
• Creative, passionate, and experienced leader of both people and technology.
• Team Management savvy (e.g., planning, budgetary control, people management, vendor management, etc.).
• Experience with DevOps, reliability engineering, and platform monitoring.
• Well versed in AGILE, DevOps and Program Management methods.
•  Enterprise thinking - find opportunities to educate and learn from other groups, including mobile & web engineering teams
•  Solves technical problems outside of day-to-day responsibilities
•  Develop team's strategy and prioritize technology initiatives
•  Ensure frictionless CI/CD pipeline from the teams
•  Able to effectively communicate the concerns and capacity of the team to partners
• Introduces new and impactful technologies based on research, POC efforts and independent research

Minimum Qualifications

Technology Core Competencies

 Experience in application design, software development, and testing in an Agile environment using Go

·        Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Couchbase, or Cassandra.

·        Experience designing and developing REST APIs for high volume clients.

·        Experience with continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Github).

·        Experience with automated build and test frameworks a plus.

·        Experience in American Express Technologies is highly desired.

·        A proven hunger to learn new technologies and translate them into working software.

·        Experience with container and container orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.

·        Experience with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.).

·        Strong ability to develop unique, outside the box ideas

·        Strong analytical, problem-solving/quantitative skills

·        Willing to take risks, experiment, and share fresh perspectives

·        Aptitude for learning and applying programming concepts.

·        Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners.

Preferred Additional:

·        Knowledge of Loyalty/Rewards and Credit card industry

·        Experience with coding skills across a variety of distributed technologies

·        Experience with open-source frameworks is a plus – especially maintaining or contributing to open source projects!

·        Experience with a broad range of software languages (Java/Go/Javascript) and payments technologies

• Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems
• 8+ years of experience.

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.