Senior Engineer

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values 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?

As a Band 35 Senior Software Engineer I, you'll be part of the core foundational team within the Amex Enterprise Cloud Organisation, responsible to build and scale AWS accounts for all of American Express. Core Foundations is a fundamental layer to ensure AWS accounts adhere to risk, regulations and compliance in accordance with the financial guidelines and also enable AWS as an alternate Cloud Provider of choice for application teams in parallel to the Private Cloud. 

• This will be an individual contributor role who will be a solid hands-on developer who knows what it takes to build Cloud Platforms at scale.
• Serve as one of the key members within the Core Foundations Team representing knowledge and competence in AWS with an equal grit towards technical delivery focused towards business continuance.
• Is proactive towards business problems and has the knack to challenge these into solutions, keeping scale, stability and security in scope.
• Familiar with one external Cloud Provider of choice in depth - E.g., AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, with a deep desire towards working in AWS.
• Can work smoothly in an Agile Team and is well aware of the Agile Software practices.
• Has a passion to drive industry leading technologies and bringing them into production-grade scale into the firm.
• Strong and clear to communicate with a positive attitude towards problems and willingness to serve and learn from everyone.
• Able to balance work priorities - within and across teams.
• Can closely collaborate with partner teams demonstrating stronger and bigger solutions.
• Is innovative, experiments, takes calculated risks and challenges status quo.
• Comes across as a mentor towards the engineers and breaks down complicated tasks into measurable items.
• Hungry to learn and implement ideas with practical solutions on the go.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's of Engineering in Computer Science or equivalent stream.
• 9+ years of proven software development in one of the programming languages - Java, Go, Python
• Good engineering experience building platforms for application teams.
• Proven experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible or similar.
• Experience in AWS/Azure in a must.
• Knows how to build and run tests in various forms in the platform.
• Understanding on building applications on AWS is essential to co-relate Platform development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in AWS Services like AWS Control Tower, EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB etc..
• Experience in Amazon EKS including building EKS clusters and deploying apps on EKS.
• Knowledge of application architectures is a plus.
• Deeper understanding & knowledge of AWS Networking and AWS Security is a huge plus.
• Knows Go well as we build applications heavily in Go.
• Knowledge of various other AWS Services is a plus.

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.