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.

This role is based in our Digital Acquisition Technology and will have a keen focus on platform modernization, bringing to life the latest technology stacks to support the ongoing needs of the business as well as compliance against global regulatory requirements. 

There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express. Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing:

• Taking your place as a core member of an agile team driving the latest development practices
• Writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation
• Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies
• Leading a team of engineers that delivers knowledge management solutions to businesses worldwide

How will you make an impact in this role?

As part of our diverse tech team you will architect, code and ship softwares that makes us an essential part of our customers digital lives.

• Perform hands-on design, and development of systems and APIs
• Participate in Solution management discussions to drive solutions for the Enterprise.
• Ability to solution and implement onto the processes quickly for the team.
• Perform rapid Pilot/POCs to experiment various engineering optimization and inner-sourcing techniques
• Function as an agile team member and helps drive consistent development practices w.r.t. tools, common components, and documentation
• Ability to identify cross functional architecture and engineering re-usable opportunities
• Optimize the current architecture and code base.
• Support engineers in rapid development and deployment by re-designing & revamping the current code base to more global, composable and modularized code
• Provide guiding principles and partner with multi-functional product teams for proactive maintenance of the critical data assets owned by their respective business functions

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of Software Development and Support experience.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience, is preferred
• Programming skills in Pega and Java.
• Strong people leadership skills, with proven track record of leading big teams through influencing.
• Demonstrated experience with Agile or other rapid application development methods
• Programming Languages and Frameworks.
• Ability to communicate problems/issues across multiple levels of leadership and obtain concurrence on go-forward approach quickly for time-critical issues.
• Strong Team coordination skills across the organization locations.
• Ability to drive code review and change review sessions to ensure changes are of acceptable quality.
• Advanced experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems and relational databases PostgreSQL.
• Advanced Experience in developing enterprise systems in Java/Pega.
• Advanced Experience in REST API Services development and Cloud integration.
• Leverage state of the art implementation patterns and best practices to solve problems and enable solutions
• Leverage and integrate code CI/CD pipeline to enable orchestration of builds, testing and deployments
• Ability to effectively communicate across third parties, technical, and business product Managers on solution design
• Ability to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems
• Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation
• Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies
• Strong communications, presentation skills, leadership, problem solving, and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated experience leading and coaching of engineers.
• Good to have React, NodeJs 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.