Senior Engineer II

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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 Enterprise Cloud provides a comprehensive platform that enables business critical applications to have Faster Time-to-Market for American Express. Enterprise Cloud offers dynamic rapid code-to-development models and services such as Platform-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Data services, Chaos engineering and CICD Pipelines, etc. for application developers in a hybrid cloud environment. Enterprise Cloud enables Application developers to write modern scalable cloud native applications.

American Express is embarking on an exciting Multi Cloud Hybrid Cloud transformation journey and is in search of an innovative and critical thinking engineers to build our Multi Cloud Hybrid Cloud Platform.

How will you make an impact in this role?

This position will report into the ‘Cloud Developer Interfaces and Cloud Orchestration’ Enterprise Cloud Engineering team. 

In this Senior Engineer role, you will be part of a highly talented team responsible for building scalable, secure, and highly available Cloud based Services within our Hybrid based platform-as-a-service (PaaS), while also gaining experience and getting exposure to many other open-source products as required.

Your primary responsibilities will be to:

• Develop technical solutions to enhance the American Express Hybrid Multi Cloud platform, with a focus on building automation for highly scalable cloud services delivery.
• Collaborate with the rest of the API/Orchestration engineering team, the UI engineering team, quality engineering tam and product management to build scalable high performant quality API and Orchestration solutions.
• Research and apply recent technology and libraries that enable lean product development focusing on Chaos engineering 
• Implement API/Middleware solutions which integrates with NSQL, platforms, Kubernetes and public cloud systems
• Protect APIs with security integrations like – Okta, SSO, mTLS, HashiCorp Vault etc.
•  Implement the best software practices that produce maintainable code, including usability patterns, code style conformity, integration, unit testing, and code review.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software

Minimum Qualifications:

• Preferably a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 7+ years of experience in developing REST APIs using Google’s GoLang and/or Java.
• Deep understanding of REST principle and deep understanding of Chaos engineering.
• Strong experience with any NSQL databases (CouchBase and ETCD is preferable) 
• Deep understanding of security integrations – Okta, mTLS, SSO, HashiCorp Vault etc.
• Deep understanding of API Gateways and their functions.
•  Experience with any of the Container and cloud Orchestration technologies – Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform etc.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD process and tools like – GitHub/Actions, Docker, Jenkins,
•  Good understanding of Infrastructure fundamentals like DNS, F5, Certificates, Containers, monitoring tools, Logging analytic tools, Firewalls & Security policies
• Successful track record of developing middleware solutions, with a strong focus on code quality, unit testing, integration testing, code quality analysis tools and API (Swagger) documentation.
• Familiar with agile application development methods. Understanding of QE processes in general.

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

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.