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.

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field preferred; proven industry experience.
• 8+ years of software development with well-rounded experience across all tiers of the application.
• Experience in leading end to end application development for front end and backend components is required
• Advanced Experience in frontend UI and preferred experience in backend as well.
• Experience in developing software applications using agile methodologies.
• Experience in supporting production issues post implementation.

• 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

• Able to understand and use complex data structures and associated components
• Designs, codes, tests, maintains, and documents applications
• Lead reviews of colleagues' work
• Defines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications provided
• Has deep understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)
• Deep understanding of infrastructure technologies and components
• Advanced experience with ReactJs, Vert.x, Java, Rest API's, Spring
• Experience in frameworks One Data, One App, One Identity, Redux, One CMS, Postman, Idaas, AuthBlue, Elastic, Splunk, Grafana,
• Advanced experience with RDBMS(Postgres/Oracle/DB2 or similar)
• Advanced experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases Advanced experience in data security frameworks
• Cucumber, Gatlin, Karate, Jest , Junits,
• Experience working in Jenkins, Git
• Experience working in public cloud platforms.
• Experience in delivering software using DevOps practices like CI,CD, Automated testing, Alerting & Monitoring etc.,
• Good understanding of application security principles & remediating vulnerabilities.
• Understanding of multi-tier application architectures and related development
• Advanced experience in Test automation, Test scripting.
• Advanced experience with performance tuning,
• Understanding of BDD & TDD practices.
• Ability to effectively communicate across third parties, technical, and business product Managers on solution design
• Ability to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems
• Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation
• Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience, is preferred
• Experience with Industry reference architecture of data management and Next Generation tools and process

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.