Staff Engineer

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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.

The Loyalty & Benefits is part of the larger Enterprise Platforms Center of Excellence where product, engineering and delivery resources have been organizationally brought together to improve speed to market and further unlock value across core capabilities.

This exciting Staff Engineer position will be part of the transformation journey supporting Loyalty & Benefit, within American Express Technologies (AET). Our Staff Engineers have both deep technical and strategic knowledge that drive superior solutions. If solving complex engineering solution, deeply hands-on, and passionate about working across engineers from various groups to create unified re-usable solutions to solve customer needs that will directly create customer delight, there's no better place to build a career. You will be responsible for solving various engineering solutions, such as bring new technology solutions, enhancing application performance, technical roadmap for transformation of classic set of application to R42, Data publishing strategy and solution using big data and machine learning, In-memory data grid and compute, so on and so forth.

Key Accomplishments:

• Highly collaborative and provide technical expertise to help engineers overcome technical problems.
• You will constantly pursue and learn industry leading/innovative solutions. Build high awareness of open-source technologies and communities that enable high volume low latency systems.
• You will work on cutting edge technologies like microservice based event driven architecture built using cloud native approach and golang, data publishing to big data and built models using machine learning, transforming classic technology applications to modern stack etc.
• Work with the engineering team to implement new scalable components, 50-60% of the time is spend on coding and hands-on technical implementation, comes up with architecture, design, engineering, and implementation of components.
• Provide hands-on solution to develop micro services and prototypes next generation of applications and proof of concepts for the new technologies.
• Work with Principal Engineers and Architects to define solution requirements and technical implementation approach.
• Drive both high-level and detailed technical designs and lead design reviews.
• Actively participate in team and company-wide Architecture and Engineering discussions and forums.
• Sets up best practices for software development and test.
• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
• Analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software for use in local, networked, cloud-based or Internet-related environments.
• Responsible for health and quality of the code across the portfolio, including leadership functional testing, and CI/CD tool integration.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of active Engineering experience in a complex environment and/or comparable experience.
• Experience with design and implementation of distributed applications with microservices architecture experience
• Experience with applications with high throughput and low latency needs.
• Hands-on coding experience in the technology stack like (Java/Go, Docker, K8s, Kafka, Elastic and Postgres relevant frameworks, languages, OS libraries, etc.).
• Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies, and takes pride in how fast they develop working software
• Recent hand-on experience with modern software engineering concepts (e.g.CI/CD, DevOps, containers, microservices, etc.).
• Proven ability to transform business requirements into high-quality production software.
• Experience with big data technology and machine learning would be a plus.
• Experience with in-memory data grid and compute such as Gridgain or any other is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to optimize the performance of enterprise software systems and/or components.
• Ability to participate in the prevention, diagnosis, and resolution of system outages as an expert in the underlying platform architecture.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field a plus.

Salary Range: $170,000.00 to $255,000.00 annually + bonus + 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.

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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.