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.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ 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 encourages 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 on the journey to develop a best in class, modern communications and storage solution for the enterprise, to support the digital first strategy, improve our cost efficiency and ensure better self-service for all our consumers as part of our technology roadmap.  With billions servicing communications being sent and stored annually, we are continuing to invest in innovation, modernization and leading-edge technologies is critically important, especially as we move through our platform and product journey. 

We are looking for a front end or full stack Senior Engineer II to deliver world-class software solutions supporting our platform vision. This includes using leading-edge modern technology stack, fostering engineering culture, innovation using new capabilities, designing and building new ways to enhance and expose our capabilities via API’s, cultivating continual improvement in system quality, performance, and robust coding frameworks.

Translate user needs into system requirements, partner with Solution Architect and Senior Engineer to ensure design meets technology standards and uses appropriate design patterns.  Develop software applications to high coding standards, ensure code is testable throughout and meets the resilience of test automation tools.  Measure and optimize application code performance and integration of component systems. Support deployment of changes into production.  Ensure adherence to CI/CD toolsets

Designs, develops, solves problems, debugs, evaluates, modifies, deploys, and documents software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.

Member of a product engineering team within the Digital Data AI & ML TECH, reporting to an Engineering Director.

Are you up for the challenge?

• Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline
• 8+ years of software development experience
• Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions
• Hands-on expertise with application design
• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
• Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms
• Participate in code reviews and automated testing
• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation
• Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
• Automate deployments in test or production environments

At the core of Software Engineering, the candidate must be able to demonstrate some of the following core competencies: 

Technical experience

• Java - Java 8+ experience building enterprise applications with proven design patterns
• Spring - Experience/knowledge with the Spring framework, specifically Spring Boot and RESTful APIs
• VertX – Experience/knowledge with VertX
• Databases – Experience/knowledge of RMDBMS databases.
• NoSQL - Experience/knowledge with NoSQL databases such as Couchbase is an advantage.
• React - Experience/knowledge for front-end (UI) development - desirable 
• CI/CD - Build pipelines for continue integration and delivery: Git, Jenkins, etc.
• Testing Frameworks - Experience with Testing Frameworks for backend/front-end and backend automation testing
• PaaS - Experience/knowledge of AWS

High Performance Behaviors:

• Recognizes opportunities to adopt innovative technologies to enable business capabilities
• Keeps up to date on current research and technology in the industry
• Recognizes the importance of collaboration to achieve objectives
• Clearly communicates ideas and concepts to others
• Finds opportunities within projects and acts on own initiative without being prompted, including making appropriate decisions as vital
• Provides feedback to team members in code reviews
• Drive creative changes & continuous improvements
• Mentors and guides junior team members to success within the team

Knowledge/Skills:

• Able to understand and use complex data structures and associated components
• Designs, codes, tests, maintains, and documents applications
• Support reviews of colleagues' work
• Defines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications provided
• Has experience of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)
• Experience of infrastructure technologies and components

Technology Skills You'll Use Every Day:

• Adaptive Communication
• Agile Practices
• Industry and Company Knowledge
• Change Management
• Technical Acumen
• Technology Industry Trends

Game Changers:

• Flexibility
• Collaboration & Partnership
• Continuous Improvement
• Courage
• Curiosity
• Resourcefulness
• Servant Leadership
• Tenacity

 Functional

• Requirements analysis
• Data Management
• Release and Deployment
• User Experience Evaluation and Analysis

Leadership

• Everyone is a leader mind set
• Analytical Thinking
• Decision making
• Coaching and mentoring
• Influencing and negotiation

Business

• Problem Solving
• Business product knowledge

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.