Senior Engineer II

Job description

You Lead the Way. We've Got Your Back.

At American Express, you'll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact - every colleague has an 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.

The American Express payment network processes and authorizes millions of card transactions daily, this network is the critical backbone for all American Express payment transactions and is built upon real time, low latency & highly available components.

These customer facing capabilities integrate with the payment network to power the American Express brand to enable key spending channels like mobile payments and e-commerce. We design, develop & deliver secure services for both the core payment platforms & customer facing services.

We are looking for an energetic and creative senior software engineer with experience in the fundamentals of software design, development, and deployment.

As a Senior Engineer, you will lead a scrum team and contribute to architecture in building these core features and deploy to in an on-prem payment cloud within the American Express infrastructure.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Serve as a core team member to drive user story analysis, design, and delivery of responsive backend services - utilising best practice principles.
• Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.
• Familiarity with API & integration patterns to securely communicate with backend services and clients.
• Work in an agile delivery team, with familiarity with the processes and ceremonies.
• Has a drive to learn industry leading/innovative technologies and solutions.
• Good positive attitude, communication, willingness to learn and share with others.
• Effective in managing work priorities and your time - both independently and as part of a team
• Bring a culture of innovation and experimentation, as well as manage risk taking to implement creative ideas.
• Bring a culture of continuous improvement and willingness to challenge the status quo.
• Guide and mentor other engineers and collaborate with external teams & Product Owners.

Minimum Qualifications

• University Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field - followed by proven experience in a modern development stack (Java or Golang preferred) is essential.
• Secure integration with API Gateways using REST endpoints is essential.
• Experience with automated build and test frameworks is essential.
• Messaging and distributed systems using Kafka event streams is essential.
• SQL Products: Oracle &Postgres is a plus.
• Application and Network Security architectures is a plus.
• NoSQL Products: Redis, Couchbase, Cassandra is a plus.
• Hands-on experience deploying and monitoring services running on Kubernetes + OpenShift is a plus.
• Appetite to learn new technologies and translate them into working software.
• Support design architect and present new solutions and services.
• Hands-on DevOps experience & review / approval of operational guides.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of the payment industry.
• Experience with a broad range of software languages in payments technologies
• Experience in designing and implementing distributed technologies.

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

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.