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.

The Team

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code, and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customer’s digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. AmEx offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourage you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

We are focused on providing the best customer experience with a differentiated set of products and services. Our risk management capabilities at the core are purpose-built while managing credit and fraud losses to the lowest levels in the industry. With our mix of assets such as closed-loop data, rules driven decisions, machine learning models, and underwriting techniques, we are re-imagining how data engineering driven capabilities can outpace market evolution, converge underwriting experience, and risk management in a more modern, digital, and connected world.

The Role

This role of a Senior Engineer will be to lead a scrum team that designs and builds large-scale, cloud-native applications and drive us closer to the vision of a robust Risk Decision platform. As a Software Engineer, you will:

• Function as a leader of an agile team and help drive consistent development and test practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation.
• Own all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications.
• Have primary focus (80%+) on writing quality code, perform unit testing, test automation, quality assurance & automation testing in ongoing sprints.
• Build new micro-services that help manages our rapidly growing footprint.
• Improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability of our data pipelines.
• Work on cross-functional initiatives and collaborate with Engineers across organizations.
• Build CICD pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
• Build automation for application changes and deployment for faster time to market Develops deep understanding of tie- ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains.
• Perform ongoing refactoring of code, quality assurance and testing, applying best practice methodologies and processes.
• Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies & ideas in development / test area.
• Provide continuous support for ongoing application availability.
• Collaborate/influence within and across teams to create successes with an innovative mindset and challenge the status quo.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other related field (or has equivalent work experience).
• 8+ years of experience in software development and quality assurance.
• 8+ years of experience in building large scale distributed applications with object-oriented design using java related stack.
• Expertise in programming knowledge in Java - Solid understanding of data structures and common algorithms
• Experience with automated release management using Maven, Salt, Git, Jenkins.
• Proficient in identifying and applying software design patterns.
• Technology landscape:
• Java 11+, Spring Boot, Vert.X, Apache Camel, Kafka
• Big Data: Hadoop, Hive
• Couchbase, Oracle, PostgreSQL, S3
• Distributed cloud engineering
• React, AngularJS

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with designing web services and API development on enterprise platforms.
• Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential.
• Good knowledge of REST API development and database technologies.
• Experience with Docker/Openshift based deployment.
• Awareness of ML concepts

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.