Senior Engineer - Java / Javascript - Enterprise GraphQL Services

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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.

Our Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology helps the people who count on it: our customers and colleagues. We are developing an enterprise-scale GraphQL service to power our customer experiences. Whether the customer is online using our JD Power award-winning web and mobile applications, on the phone with our legendary Customer Care Professionals, or chatting with us through Alexa, our GraphQL service will provide the data and functionality needed at the point of customer contact. Fast, secure, real-time, and seamlessly coordinated.
In this role, you will:

• Ship code, hands-on engineers. You will work on exciting, sophisticated problems related to building an enterprise-scale GraphQL service that underpins the experience of millions of customers globally
• Be part of a high performing agile team. Our GraphQL service is entering a phase of significant growth and investment, and you will be responsible for working on fast paced requirements .
• Helping other engineers to reach their full potential
• Find opportunities to innovate and adopt new technologies
• Feel empowered and supported every step of the way by leaders and peers who want you to succeed
• Take risks, experiment, learn, and adapt quickly

Technical Skills
Required:

• 6+ years of building highly scalable, resilient, and secure APIs and microservices
• Hands on GraphQL experience designing GraphQL schemas and resolver functions that scale well. Optimizing GraphQL execution, for example through batching, caching, and look ahead.
• Domain modelling: ability to analyze complex business scenarios and to distil business rules into domain models (for example, UML class diagrams, ER diagrams)
• Languages: at least two of the following: Javascript, Java, Kotlin, or Python
• Coding: recent, expert, hands-on experience building applications and services with a JVM-based language (Java, Kotlin) or Javascript
• Testing frameworks: experience using testing frameworks
• Code versioning: experience with using code versioning systems, preferably git.
• Agile methodologies: experience working within Scrum, Kanban, or XP variant.

Desirable:

• Additional languages, to demonstrate your deep understanding of programming paradigms
• Docker/Kubernetes - experience building and deploying cloud native applications
• Databases - experience of NoSQL or SQL databases such as PostgreSQL, Cassandra, or caches such as Redis, Memcached
• CI/CD - experience in building pipelines for continue integration and delivery: Git, Jenkins, etc.
• Spring - experience with the Spring framework, specifically Spring Boot
• Reactive - Experience with Spring Webflux /vert.x or similar RX architectures

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. American Express 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 of #TeamAmex.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or related disciplines is preferred, but not crucial. Demonstrable mastery of modern technology architecture, infrastructure, and software practices is crucial.
• 6+ years software development experience

Salary Range: $120,000.00 to $170,000.00 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.

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.

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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