Engineer II

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

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we're supporting our customers' financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what's possible —and we're proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

From building next-generation apps and microservices in Kotlin/Java to using AI to help protect our customers from fraud, you could be doing ambitious work that brings our iconic, global brand into the future. As a part of our tech team, we could work together to bring ground-breaking and diverse ideas to life that power the digital systems, services, products and platforms that millions of customers around the world depend on. If you love to work with APIs, contribute to open source, or use the latest technologies, we'll support you with an open environment and learning culture to grow your career.

Our Software Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day. Today, innovative ideas, insight and fresh opinions are at the core of how we create a more powerful, personal and fulfilling experience for all our customers. So if you're interested in a career creating breakthrough software and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further.

You won't just keep up, you'll break new ground.

American Express is looking for energetic, high-performing and highly skilled Engineers to help shape our technology and product roadmap. You will be part of the fast-paced, entrepreneurial focused on delivering the next generation data engineering solutions. The team will be responsible for experience for our Card members by delivering world-class innovative solutions using best in class Machine Learning techniques, processing TBs of data, to provide highly personalized card member experience and to drive profitable growth for the organization.

• Contributes to design, development, solving, debugging, evaluating, modifying, deploying, and documenting software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications
• Function as an active member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Focus on coding standard methodologies and automated testing
• Debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation
• Support and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
• Automate deployments in test or production environments
• Explores new automation techniques to refine the agility, speed and quality of engineering initiatives and efforts
• Defines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications provided. Takes part in reviews of own work and handles work efficiently.

• 6 to 9 years of work experience in software design and implementation using Java.
• 4+ Experience in Java, Spring/Spring boot
• Hands on experience of Core Java concepts including Collection, multithreading, Latest Java features
• Hands on experience in building REST APIs
• Experience in RDBMS or NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge of application development on Google Cloud platform
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Hands on experience of Kotlin/Java
• Experience in Microservice
• Able to demonstrate good web fundamentals & knowledge of DOM
• Experience writing adaptive and responsive UI applications
• Experience with TDD, BDD and unit testing.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment and their frameworks
• Working in an Agile or SAFe development environment 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.