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.

Software Development

• Experience in both high and low-level design, prototype of enterprise systems
• Experience in building scalable and performant enterprise systems 
• Conduct code reviews and mandate best coding practices such as unit tests, CI/CD pipelining, contractual tests
• Hands on experience in cloud data engineering, Java, Python, Spark, micro service architecture, spring boot 
• Guide and mentor other members in the team 
• 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 the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments

Leadership

• Takes ownership and accountability for their and teams’ assignments  
• Demonstrate technical expertise to help team members overcome technical problems
• Assist in retaining and hiring talented team members 
• Drives the team’s strategy and prioritizes initiatives
• Influence team members by challenging status quo, demonstrating risk taking, and implementing creative ideas
• Productivity multiplier for the team by analyzing workflow and contributing 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
• Collaborates with leadership across multiple teams to define solution requirements and technical implementation

Minimum Qualifications

• 9+ years of hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing
• Hands on experience with Java, Spark, Python, spring, and RESTful APIs
• Hands on experience in cloud, big data stack spark, elastic, no sql db etc. 
• Deep understanding of infrastructure, technologies, and components
• Expertise in building highly scalable, fault tolerant and effective orchestrated APIs to accomplish a business function.
• Testing and automation framework and tools: Junit, TestNG, Selenium, Mockito 
• Good experience with Agile(Scrum), Rally, Jira, Confluence, Kanban

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.