Senior Engineer-Java

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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 share 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.

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.

If you have a strong will to learn and educate and are motivated by the opportunity to help grow our team and be a part of an industry-leading technology and innovation organization, then look no further! There are countless opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express.

At American Express, we are growing our cross functional agile team to deliver best-in-class servicing platforms for our customers using modern open source technology operating in the cloud. Team members utilize today's best engineering practices, techniques, and technologies to build and ship software in small batches to continuously deliver incremental value.

Located in Sunrise, Florida, American Express has a fresh, fun, collaborative, and creative environment in the new regional headquarters campus- a rare find in South Florida.

What You'll Be Doing

• Taking your place as a core member of an agile team that drives user story analysis and elaboration, and designs and develops software applications.
• Write clean and concise code that is well-tested, easy to maintain, and consistent with existing patterns in our codebase.
• Translate business designs and requirements into functioning applications.
• Developing and integrating REST APIs between back-end systems to support high-volume intranet applications.
• Collaborating with product owners, delivery managers, and other developers to deliver a quality product.
• Taking ownership and responsibility of the work at hand and shepherding code through to production.
• Actively pair-programming with teammates for collective code ownership and mentoring other engineers.

Minimum Qualifications

• Expert-level knowledge of Java and building REST APIs; experience with Spring Boot preferred.
• Keen understanding of application architecture and design, preferably in a cloud-native environment
• Ability to identify coding and environment issues relating to design, stability, and scalability
• Strong experience with developing code for Relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience in Agile development, automated testing, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
• Willingness and ability to lead complex cross-team initiatives without direct authority
• Learn new technologies quickly and be able to leverage their benefits to enhance existing software

Bonus Points

• Experience with Event Base Architecture (ex. Kafka) is a strong plus
• Experience in building component-based applications with modern frontend frameworks, with preference of React/Redux
• Experience with cloud application development and scheduled process execution
• Strong sense of extreme ownership and a big proponent of DevOps culture.
• Familiarity with SOLID principles.
• Performance testing experience including root cause analysis and resolution for complicated issues
• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and working in a large matrixed organization.
• Business Product Knowledge - Working knowledge of the finance and credit lending industry.
• Experience in Financial Services Engineering with emphasis on leading teams.
• Experience in working with business stakeholders to clarify requirements.
• Knowledge Credit & Collection domain experience a plus.

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

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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.

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Non-considerations for sponsorship:

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

Considerations for sponsorship:

Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.