Job Description
At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
How will you make an impact in this role
We are building a modern payments platform that enables teams to create products at scale and power digitals channels to deliver compelling experiences in a dramatically faster fashion. As an Engineer, you will be responsible for building this cutting-edge technology framework that facilitates developer productivity without compromising on quality at enterprise scale.
We look first and foremost for people who are passionate around solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. You'll be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders on a daily basis to stay focused on common goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. We welcome diverse perspectives and people who are not afraid to challenge assumptions.
Our mission is to accelerate the pace of financial innovation and build new financial products for American Express. Our platform streamlines the process of launching and iterating financial products.
Responsibilities:
Lead the solution design and implementation of core platform features
API Design and Implementation
Provide Operational support with building platform monitoring tools/dashboards, ad hoc reports
Defect Fixes, Performance Testing, Endurance testing
Qualifications:
Overall 8+ years of developing internet-scale solution development primarily using Java, Spring Boot, RDBMS and no-sql databases
Must have demonstrated proficiency and experience in the following tools and technologies:
Java 8 (Lambdas, Streams, Completable Future, optional, generics)
Temporal, Spring boot (webflux , Reactor 3), spring-data, REST
Java functional and reactive programming
Test Driven Development
Asynchronous Reactive Micro services utilizing Vert.x
REST APIs using Spring Boot 2.0 (reactive) and skilled in Open API (swagger) specification
designing database schemas, index design, optimizations for query tuning
Working knowledge of cloud technologies (eg. docker, kubernetes, jager, prometheus)
Modern software engineering tools: git workflows, gradle, load testing tools, mock frameworks
Good knowledge of messaging systems like Kafka, mq and actively leverage AI tools for development
One Data Experience is needed for internal candidates
Take pride in writing good clean code, perform peer code reviews and architecture reviews.
A bachelor's degree in engineering or related field
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
- 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.
