Senior Engineer I

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 Team Amex, 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. Here, you'll learn and grow as we champion your meaningful career journey with programs, benefits, and flexibility to back you personally and professionally. Every colleague shares in the company's success.

Together, we'll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to our customers, communities, and each other every day. And, we'll do it with integrity and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they truly belong.

Join #TeamAmex and let's lead the way together.

Architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers' digital lives. As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers' digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. Amex offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

How will you make an impact in this role?

American Express has embarked on an exciting transformation driven by an energetic new team of high performers. This is a great opportunity to join the Digital Data, AI, and Machine Learning organization within American Express Technologies become the driver of this exciting journey.

We're looking for a highly-skilled and motivated Senior Engineer with a history of building and leading Big Data Applications (with Spark+Scala or Java), and RESTful APIs using Java. Someone who fosters a culture of high quality and innovation using new capabilities to drive the release of resilient, robust, and performant solutions, to help us build a global platform that will form a backbone of American Express's Marketing ecosystem. We are building an Enterprise Eligibility product using modern Technology and we need someone who can help us evolve our thinking and engineering to ensure that our platform grows in a sustainable way, delivering business value faster and adapting rapidly to change.

Joining the Enterprise Marketing team, this role will be focused on the delivery of innovative solutions to satisfy the needs of our business. As an agile team we work closely with our business partners to understand what they require, and we strive to continuously improve as a team. We all have a role in accelerating our delivery of high quality reliable and resilient code, and as a Senior Engineer you have the opportunity to look at the bigger picture and steer the team in the right direction, being cognizant of developments across the wider enterprise.

We pride ourselves on a culture of kindness and positivity, and a continuous focus on supporting colleague development to help you achieve your career goals. We lead with integrity, and we emphasize work/life balance for all of our teammates.

Responsibilities

There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express. Here's just some of what you'll be doing:

• As a part of our team, you will be developing innovative, high quality, and robust operational engineering capabilities
• Develop software in our technology stack which is constantly evolving but currently includes Java, Hive, MapReduce, Spark+Scala, MAPR-DB, Cloud, RESTful APIs, Unix Shell Script, etc.
• Work with Business partners and with stakeholders to understand functional requirements, architecture dependencies, and business capability roadmaps
• Lead technical solution design to meet business requirements
• Lead agile project teams in technical issue resolution in line with company and platform strategic direction
• Taking your place as a core member of an Agile team driving the latest development practices
• Identify and drive reengineering opportunities, and opportunities for adopting new technologies

Required Experience

• 10+ years of Technology and Product Development experience
• BS or MS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other Technical discipline or equivalent work experience
• Leading and working on teams using Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Hive, MapReduce Spark, Relational Databases, and RESTful APIs using Java and SpringBoot
• Experience of leading and being a coach for Team members
• Good knowledge about Maven build tool and configuration management tools like Git-hub
• Strong analytical and problem-solving aptitude
• Good communication skills and teamwork
• Understanding of various SDLC methodologies, particularly Agile. PMP/SAFe certification is a plus
• Open-minded and passionate about learning new technologies
• Suggest and recommend solution architecture to resolve business problems
• Perform code review and lead technical discussions with the team on the best solutions possible
• Capable to work as a Technical subject expert
• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us

an essential part of our customers' digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented

engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and

you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. Amex

offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you

to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we

understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you

dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology

on #TeamAmex.

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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.