Senior Java Engineer

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.

At American Express, we are growing our multi-functional agile team to deliver outstanding servicing platforms for our customers using modern open source technology operating in the cloud. Team members use 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:

• Own the design and architecture of enterprise class platforms using industry best practices.
• 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 specialists.

Job Qualifications

• Expert-level knowledge of Java and building REST APIs; experience with Spring Boot preferred.
• Keen understanding of application architecture and design in a cloud-native environment
• Experience with Event Base architecture and implementation (ex. Kafka)
• Ability to quickly identify coding and environment issues relating to design, stability, and scalability
• Strong experience with developing code for Relational and NoSQL databases
• Leadership experience in Agile development environment within a heavily matrixed organization
• Automated testing, build automation (Jenkins preferred), and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) across multiple pipelines
• Performance testing experience including root cause analysis and resolution for complicated issues
• Willingness and ability to lead sophisticated cross-team initiatives without direct authority
• Learn new technologies quickly, be able to mentor team members, and demonstrate new technology benefits to improve existing software

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.

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.

If the role you are applying for is designated as hybrid or onsite, you will be required to demonstrate that you have completed your primary COVID-19 vaccination series (i.e., 2 doses for Moderna/Pfizer and 1 dose for J&J) in order to work in or visit any of our offices. This requirement is subject to legally required accommodations.

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

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.

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + sales incentive + equity (if applicable) + 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.

US Job Seekers/Employees - Click here to view the "EEO is the Law" poster and supplement and the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.

If the links do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters to access the three posters.