Senior 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?

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

• Taking your place as a core member of an agile team driving the latest development practices
• Writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation
• Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies
• Leading a team of engineers that delivers knowledge management solutions to businesses worldwide
• Perform hands-on design, and development of systems
• Participate in Solution management discussions to drive solutions for the Enterprise.
• Define a framework comprised of guidelines, processes, tools, and loosely coupled reusable components
• Ability to solution and implement onto the processes quickly for the team. 
• Perform rapid Pilot/POCs to experiment various engineering optimization and inner-sourcing techniques
• Function as senior member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development practices w.r.t. tools, common components, and documentation
• Ability to identify cross functional architecture and engineering re-usable opportunities
• Support engineers in rapid development and deployment by re-designing & revamping the current code base to more global, composable and modularized code
• Provide guiding principles and partner with multi-functional product teams for proactive maintenance of the critical data assets owned by their respective business functions
• Lead data quality issue prevention and remediation; handle exceptions and issues on data quality and run remediation process activities with appropriate data stewards and governance bodies

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors in computer science or equivalent degree with minimum of 8+ years of work experience developing large scale applications
• Hands on development experience of large-scale application development and workflows using Java (Core & Web Technologies), Spring and Frontend (React, Angular) and Node JS.
• Experience in using Relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL Oracle and NOSQL databases like Couchbase.
• Experience in development of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines using Jenkins or any equivalent
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to interpret the business needs from the Product Owners
• Able to learn new technologies and able to guide team to perform POCs using the new tech stack
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
• Familiar/Certified in Java (Oracle Certified) or other rapid application development methods.
• Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.
• High energy, demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies, and takes pride in how fast they develop working software
• Self-starter with a strong affinity for driving change
• Demonstrated decision-making skill and ability
• Demonstrated thought leadership skills and ability to develop winning strategies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in Enterprise Applications for banking sector.
• Understanding & hands-on w/ streaming services like Kafka, AWS.

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.