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.

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible - and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day.”

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for designing Data Engineering solutions on bigdata ecosystem, developing custom applications, and modifying existing applications to meet distinct and changing business requirements. Hands on coding, debugging, and documentation, as well as working closely with SRE team. Provide post implementation and ongoing support.  

  
Develop and design software applications, translating user needs into system architecture. Assess and validate application performance and integration of component systems and provide process flow diagrams. Test the engineering resilience of software and automation tools.  

  
You will be challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers. Software Engineers who join our Loyalty Technology team will be assigned to one of several exciting teams that are developing a new, nimble, and modern loyalty platform which will support the key element of connecting with our customers where they are and how they choose to interact with American Express.  

 
Be part of an enthusiastic, high performing technology team developing solutions to drive engagement and loyalty within our existing cardmember base and attract new customers to the Amex brand.  

 
The position will also play a critical role partnering with other development teams, testing and quality, and production support, to meet implementation dates and allow smooth transition throughout the development life cycle.  
  

The successful candidate will be focused on building and executing against a strategy and roadmap focused on moving from monolithic, tightly coupled, batch-based legacy platforms to a loosely coupled, event-driven, microservices-based architecture to meet our long-term business goals. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's in computer applications or equivalent OR bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science or equivalent.  
• Deep understanding of Hadoop and Spark Architecture and its working principle.  

• Deep understanding of Data warehousing concepts.
•  Ability to design and develop optimized Data pipelines for batch and real time data processing.  
• 5+ years of software development experience.  
• 5+ years’ experience on Python or Java Hands-on experience on writing and understanding complex SQL (Hive/PySpark- data frames), optimizing joins while processing huge amount of data. 
• 3+ years of hands-on experience of working with Map-Reduce, Hive, Spark (core, SQL and PySpark). 
• Hands on Experience on Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, DataProc, Cloud Composer)  
• 3+ years of experience in UNIX shell scripting  
• Should have experience in analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of system applications. 
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners.  
   

Additional Good to have requirements:  

• Understanding of Distributed eco system. 
• Experience in designing and building solutions using Kafka streams or queues.  
• Experience with NoSQL i.e., HBase, Cassandra, Couchbase or MongoDB 
• Experience with Data Visualization tools like Tableau, SiSense, Looker  
• Ability to learn and apply new programming concepts.  
• Knowledge of Financial reporting ecosystem will be a plus. 
• Experience in leading teams of engineers and scrum teams. 

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That’s why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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.