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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Our Software Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day. Today, innovative ideas, insight and new perspectives are at the core of how we create a more powerful, personal, and fulfilling experience for all our customers. So, if you’re interested in a career creating breakthrough software re and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further. You won’t just keep up; you’ll break new ground. 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:

• Functioning as senior member of an Agile team helping drive consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation).
• Analyzing business features and user stories and refining with the Product Owner to appropriately support design and build activities.
• Working with Product Owners to prioritize features and manage a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues.
• Performing all technical development for assigned applications including architecture, design, developing prototypes, writing new code and APIs, and performing unit and assembly testing of developed software also as needed
  Hand-on architecture working closely with technical architects and architecture governance technical team for solution development and design reviews.
• Supporting integration and performance tests and providing demo of results to technical and product partners.
• Performing peer code reviews, making deliberate short- and long-term design decisions and keeping constant focus on clearing technical debt items in the backlog.
• Enabling the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
• Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the core and associated domains.
• Typically spends 30-50% of time writing code and testing, and remainder of time managing team and stakeholders through ongoing product/platform release sprints.
• Works closely with product owners on blueprints and annual planning of feature sets that impact multiple platforms and products.
• Manages and mentor teams of junior and senior engineers through ongoing sprints.
• Communicating to stakeholders and business partners on the solution and the implementation aspects at the technical and/or functional level appropriate for the situation.
• Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies.
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by demonstrating risk taking.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of development experience with Java (minimum Java 7).
• Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing.
• Strong technical capability with an intense desire to learn new skills and industry trends.
• Collaborative work ethics to thrive on peer support and taking pride in of products and capabilities delivered as a team.
• Ability to balance priorities and break down complex problems to manageable chunks that can be delivered incrementally.
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Micro-services, Relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge in In-memory computing is preferable.
• Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages and proven ability to understand and use complex data structures and associated components.
• Deep understanding of multithreading concepts with experience of developing robust and scalable distributed server-side applications and algorithms.
• Must be willing and able to express new ideas, concerns and opinions directly to wider team including tech and business partners in team meetings in person or video/tele conferencing.
• Experience with Event Driven and Reactive Programming is a plus.
• Desirable to have experience of writing applications for deployment on cloud environment including OpenShift and Docker containers.
• Desirable to have experience with performance and monitoring tools e.g., Splunk and App Dynamics.
• Experience developing solutions for complex business problems in Payments and/or financial systems would be an advantage.
• Analytical skills and knack of looking for non-obvious solutions.
• Should have worked on RESTful API design and implementation.
• Implementation or working experience of Continuous Integration and Continues Delivery using tools and automation capabilities such as JUnit, Mocking, TestNG, Jenkins, Git, Stash and Jira.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field.
  

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 committed to providing an inclusive and accessible work environment in which all people who apply for positions or who work for or on behalf of Amex are treated with dignity and respect and are provided with equal treatment with respect to employment, regardless of that person's age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, colour, ancestry, ethnic or national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, family status, pregnancy, disability, record of offences, social condition or origin, political beliefs, association or activity or other factors prohibited under applicable Human Rights legislation (the “Prohibited Grounds”).   If you have a disability and need accommodation, please speak with the Recruiter for more information.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.