Staff Engineer - Java, API, Oracle Cloud/AWS/GCP, DevOps, COTS

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.

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.

Job Description

Who we are:

• The Finance Data Engineering group at American Express is entering into a new phase of technology transformation driven by opportunities to simplify processes, deepen business intelligence, analytics and reporting, and raise operational efficiency. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative products and services at a rapid pace, with hands on experience and strategic thinking, in areas of data management and analytics, cloud computing, and modern software engineering, join our leadership team to be part of our transformation journey.

What we’re looking for:

• You’re a talented, creative, and motivated engineer who loves developing powerful, stable, and intuitive apps – and you’re excited to work with a team of individuals with that same passion. You’ve accumulated years of experience, and you’re excited about taking your mastery of Java, Kotlin, Python, or Javascript to a new level. You have worked with 3rd party commercial software providers and are comfortable assessing, integrating and managing them. You enjoy challenging projects involving big data sets and are cool under pressure. You’re no stranger to fast-paced environments and agile development methodologies – in fact, you embrace them. With your strong analytical skills, your unwavering commitment to quality, your excellent technical skills, and your collaborative work ethic, you’ll do great things here at American Express.

Leadership attributes:

• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking

Impact/Influence:

• Communicates, collaborates, and proactively engages with teammates (and cross-functional teams alike) to ensure requirements are delivered on-time.
• Accountable to team for delivery of quality work.

Minimum Qualifications

• • Experience coding in at least one or more languages: Java, Kotlin, Python. Good to have knowledge of JavaScript, node.js, angular, react etc.
  • Experience implementing highly available, reliable, and secure APIs, services, and infrastructure to support large-scale initiatives, primarily in the AWS or GCP ecosystems.
  • Experience working with 3rd party Commercial off-the-shelf software providers (COTS) understanding their products, the hosting environments, integration patterns and comparing to internally built options.
  • A passion for coaching and engaging engineers of all levels, bringing their talent, skills and experience up to pull the organization forward.
  • Solid Engineering Principles (OOP/Func Paradigms, TDD, DDD, SoC, MicroServices, Caching Strategies).
  • Experience with CICD pipelines (ie: Jenkins/CircleCI/XLR/Git/GitHub Actions).
  • Experience with broad and deep architecture standards for server/virtualization, LAN/WAN/Converged network, database, end user computing and infrastructure applications in both data center and cloud environments will be highly preferred.
  • Experience deploying to cloud-based infrastructure resources (DevOps, CloudOps, SecOps, or SRE experience a plus).
  • Experience with container technologies and runtimes (docker, containerd, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, etc.).
  • Experience with different architectures: (ie: mvc, microservices, async/event-based, task-based, workflow-based, ETLs, data pipelines).
  • Experience with relational database engines (ie: MySQL, Postgres, MemSQL).
  • Solid understanding of NoSQL technologies (ie: HBase, Cassandra, Redis, Memcached).
  • Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions.
  • Strong analytical skills and programming skills, in production environment.
  • Experience contributing to Open-Source Software (OSS) projects.

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.