Senior Engineer- (Spark, Big Data, Linux, Java)

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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.

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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.

American Express Global Payment Network authorizes and processes all of the company's customer card transactions. It is the critical back bone for this processing and operates in a near real-time, low-latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year.

Are you looking to join a team of Engineers who not only write code and test but also innovate? If so, join our GNST team and work on the Network Platform.

This role requires engineers to follow hybrid model and be in one of the two office locations: Phoenix, Palo Alto.

Software Engineering Key Responsibilities:

• Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large scale enterprise applications

• Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments

• Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform

• Establish and accepts responsibility for engineering practices across teams for example the code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective

• Empower teams to automate demand driven scalable application deployments in test or production environments

• Apply specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives in order to identify complex and or broad problems and issues and formulate recommendations

• Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices

Leadership:

• Responsible for the technical leadership to the individual scrum team

• Drives the team's technical improvements and roadmap

• Takes accountability for the technical maturity of the team

• Mentor and guide team members to success while being more productive on the team.

• Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics

• Working with Engineering Director to hire top talent for the team

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of relevant work experience in software design and implementation using Spark Big data technologies, Java, or Scala.

• 2+ years leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience

• Experience in distributed messaging system such as Kafka

• Have built and delivered large scale enterprise systems/products and have extensive hands-on experience.

• Experience building highly available and low latency distributed systems. Experience building systems as service-oriented architecture and/or micro-services architecture.

• Keen awareness of concerns in a massively distributed systems and effective solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Linux cloud (Kubernetes) environment supporting applications built using language like Java and NoSQL databases like Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis.

• Experience attracting, hiring, and retaining top engineering talent.

• Have experience leading engineering teams and in agile methodologies, have enabled DevOps mindset, processes, and tools

• Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.

• Excellent judgment and constant pursuit of higher standards, a passion to build and nurture high efficiency teams.

• Experience in Continuous integration, Continuous delivery and DevOps Systems.

• Experience in cloud platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift are a plus.

• Have excellent written and verbal communications skills. Create and deliver effective presentations to Senior Leadership

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.