Software Engineer II

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. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

As our Software Engineer II, you will join our global technology team that has embarked on building a highly available and scalable distributed systems on the cloud to support the company's long-term strategy and vision. Your primary responsibility is performance testing of our next generation distributed platform, aligning resources and delivery with business growth and diversification, while significantly improving service quality and cost-effectiveness.

Key Initiatives:

• Card Network Authorizations/Routing, Clearing and Settlement.
• ATM, Debit, Credit and Push Payment Transactions.
• Platform Engineering and Foundational Capabilities of distributed systems
• High Availability, Resiliency and Performance Engineering on Cloud

Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for performance testing, chaos performance testing of a distributed transaction processing infrastructure and payment processing business logic by leveraging that platform.
• You will constantly purse and learn industry leading/innovative solutions. Build high awareness of open-source technologies and communities that enable high volume low latency systems.
• Work on Performance test automation and tooling.
• Engage with developers in day to day activities and helping in review of design, coding and the SDLC. Stepping into code where and if needed and be a hands-on leader.
• Ensure on time product releases that are of high quality, enabling the core vision of next generation.
• Collaborate with peer technology and product teams across different locations.

Qualifications:

• You have Computer Science degree, or equivalent with at-least 3 to 5 years of work experience.
• Have worked on performance testing of large scale enterprise systems/products and have extensive hands -on experience. Preferably delivered and supported products as Cloud hosted services.
• Keen awareness of concerns in a massively distributed systems and effective solutions.
• Experience in Linux cloud (Kubernetes) environment supporting applications built using language like Java, Go, Node.js and NoSQL databases like Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis.
• Performance testing using JMeter.
• Running performance tests and analyzing/debugging the issues.
• Knowledge of Rest API, Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus, Jenkins, Cassandra, Couchbase.
• Experience in monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Elastic, Kibana, Grafana.
• Experience in running Endurance test, Stress test and Chaos testing.

• Experience in using NoSQL databases and distributed messaging systems such as Redis, Kafka, Couchbase,

  Cassandra in the context of low latency and high transaction volume systems.

• Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
• Experience with Functional Programming practices. Strong OOPs concepts, concurrency, exception handling etc.

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.