Full Stack Senior Engineer

Description - External

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.

You will be leading of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering world class Omnichannel payment experiences and personal integration through REST on vert.x polyglot event-driven application framework and data driven solution on Big Data stack, Machine Learning and APIs. You will be challenged with identifying innovative and transformative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers.

We are looking for passionate Digital / Web Senior engineer to work and lead team on the futuristic web engineering, Digital asset creation & API integration for our clients & partners. This requires the ability to go deep in the American Express payment system with many dependencies while responsible for the technical deliveries and implementation of components. As a Senior engineer in our OPEN SOURCE development team you will be responsible for lead, develop and deliver digital experience for the future supporting AMEX user experiences on Omnichannel (web, bot,mobile, etc.), as well as integrations with partners. Strong on Cloud technology implementation private and public / hybrid domains. Senior Engineer lead POCs, MVP using open source , American express frameworks like OneAmex , Cloud Event schema for event architecture.

You will work closely with product and experience to understand the requirements and deliver product that meets these requirements. Technologies used vary from Java, Spring, REST, REACT, Angular, SPRING, Node.js, SPARK, SCALA, HIVE , Python etc. If you are the kind of lead engineer who is passionate about bringing great products to life especially in payment area, being a crafts(wo)man in engineering and love working in a collaborative environment with your product partners and dependency teams, then we want to talk to you.

Responsibilities:

• Perform all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications including design, hands-on engineering, developing framework & tooling including prototypes, and code review, mentor engineering peers and own and drive transformation with various technology domains.
• Function as a engineering leader on an agile team to build scalable software solutions through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation).
• Lead code reviews (Pull Requests)
• Lead and contribute into engineering excellence like automated of all testing areas.
• Lead Product Management and work closely with product owners in defining product and engineering roadmap.
• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation.
• Leads the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
• Automate deployments in test or production environments.
• Goal to have all applications able automatically scale and non functional requirements of self-healing built within every critical journeys
• Strong interpersonal leadership
• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.
• Influence team members with innovative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking.
• Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analyzing your workflow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.
• Mentor and guide team members to success within the team.

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 enterprise 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.

In order to work in or visit any of our offices in the United States, we require colleagues to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19

"Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions."

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or information technology
• 8 + years of software development experience

• 6 + years of experience in leading teams of engineers and leading scrum teams
• 6 + years of experience with cloud-based software design, building microservices, and automated testing and deployment
• 6 + years of experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
• 8 + years of experience designing Digital and web engineering solutions, using Angular or React
• 8 + years of experience in Digital and web engineering solution build, automated testing for all necessary iterations and deployment
• 8 + years of experience in developing Java, REST , REACT , SPRING applications and solutions
• 8 + years of experience in core Java development / design / architecture
• 5 + years of experience SPRING and MVC Architecture
• 6 + years of experience in Data base integration using any industry leading SQL or NoSQL based DBs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Up to date with industry reference of tech trend and solutions.
• Thinking leader in building innovation and transformational technology strategies
• Enable engineering teams to adapt and promote OpenSource
• 2 + years of experience with Big Data Tech stack of technologies
• 2 + years of experience in designing and building solutions using Kafka streams or queues
• 2 + years of experience or exposure to Machine Learning and Artificial Engineering would be beneficial.
• Master's Degree
• "Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions."

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

"American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law."