Staff Engineer

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 #TeamAmex and let’s lead the way together.

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.  American Express 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 of #TeamAmex.

• Global Loyalty and Benefits powers the Membership Reward points, Amex Offers, Insurance, and Card benefits for over 112 million cards in over 58 markets worldwide.
• Global Accounts Receivable powers our customer's financial life and Amex’s growth by building innovative Account Receivable Solutions for Consumer Card, Loans, and Commercial Card businesses.
• Digital Banking powers Deposits, Financial Planning, Bill Payment, and Money Movement experiences through innovative platform products & services while giving customers the ability to manage their money in an automated and predictive way.
• Enterprise Platforms’ charter is to modernize the company’s core platforms to dramatically increase Amex’s strategic agility and intensify its customer-centric approach.
• We are looking for a Staff Engineer to support our modernization journey, enabling our markets to leverage groundbreaking technology that will provide flexibility, scalability, and speed to market.
• We plan to hire multiple Directors across three markets (US, UK, and India) and skills will vary by team and market. Below are high-level responsibilities and qualifications, and we welcome applicants with varying specialties. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive both high-level and detailed technical designs and conduct design reviews as needed.
• Implement new, highly scalable platform components, transforming classic technology applications to modern stack.
• Collaborate and provide technical expertise to help engineers overcome problems.
• Build high awareness of open-source technologies and communities that enable high volume low latency systems.
• Implement new scalable components; 50-60% of the time spent on coding and hands-on technical implementation.
• Work with Principal Engineers and Architects to define solution requirements and technical implementation approach.
•  Actively participate in team and company-wide architecture and engineering discussions / forums.
•  Drive both high-level and detailed technical designs and lead design reviews.
• Establish best practices for software development and testing.
• Analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software for use in local, networked, cloud-based or internet-related environments.
•  Oversee health and quality of code across the portfolio, including leadership functional testing and CI/CD tool integration.
• Provide technical mentorship to other software engineers at all levels.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Engineering experience in a complex environment and/or comparable experience.
• Experience with design and implementation of distributed applications with microservices architecture experience.
• Experience with high throughput and low latency needs applications.
• Hands-on coding experience in the technology stack (Java/Go, Docker, K8s, Kafka, Elastic and Postgres relevant frameworks, languages, OS libraries, etc.).
• Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software.
• Recent hands-on experience with modern software engineering concepts (CI/CD, DevOps, containers, microservices, etc.).
• Proven ability to transform business requirements into high-quality production software.
• Experience with big data technology and machine learning is a plus.
• Experience with in-memory data grid and compute (Gridgain, etc.) is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to optimize the performance of enterprise software systems and/or components.
• Ability to participate in the prevention, diagnosis, and resolution of system outages as an expert in the underlying platform architecture.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or related field. Master’s degree is a plus.

Salary Range: $170,000.00 to $255,000.00 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

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 
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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.

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.

US Job Seekers/Employees - Click here to view the “Know Your Rights” poster and the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.

If the links do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters to access the three posters.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.