Software Engineer I

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?

American Express is looking for a hands-on Software Engineer I in the Risk Decision Technology (RDT) organization for the Authorization Modernization Program (AMP) team. The RDT team is responsible for cross-domain, configurable platforms to enable best-in-class risk management and American Express growth with strong governance. The AMP team is embarking on a journey to modernize and build next-gen authorizations platform. This role of engineer will be an integral part of a team that designs and builds large-scale, high-transaction, cloud-native applications and drive us closer to the vision of a modernized authorizations platform. As an engineer, you will:

• Function as a member of an agile team and help drive consistent development and test practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation
• Have primary focus (80%25+) on writing quality code, perform unit testing and test automation in ongoing sprints
• Build new micro-services and web services that help run fraud risk assessment for customer transactions
• Improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability of our data pipelines
• Work on multi-functional initiatives and collaborate with Engineers across organizations
• Build CICD pipelines for continuous integration and delivery
• Build automation for application changes and deployment for faster time to market
• Develop deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
• Perform ongoing refactoring of code, quality assurance and testing, applying best-in-class methodologies and processes
• Find opportunities to adopt innovative technologies & ideas in development / test area
• Provide continuous support for ongoing application availability
• Collaborate/influence within and across teams to create successes with an innovative attitude and challenge the status quo

Minimum Qualifications

• Hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other related field (or has equivalent work experience)
• 2+ years of confirmed experience in software development and quality assurance
• 1 year of demonstrated ability in Java development and building large scale distributed applications
• 1 year of experience with relational and NoSQL database technologies like Oracle, Cassandra, and Postgres
• Experience with automated release management using Gradle, Git, Jenkins
• Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities
• Willingness to learn new technologies and use them to their optimal potential
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels across functions, from both technical and practical views

Preferred Qualifications

• Building APIs using techniques and frameworks like REST, RPC (gRPC and similar), SpringBoot
• Experience or exposure to Java reactive programming
• Experience working with streaming solutions (Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams)

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.