Engineer

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With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex 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.  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 your professional development.  Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex

The U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

We are seeking a Senior Engineer to be part of a dynamic high-performing entrepreneurial team focused on delivering the next generation Marketing Tech capabilities.

Marketing Technology teams work on creating end-to-end solutions that power American Express customer marketing campaigns. In this role you will have opportunities to influence, drive and deliver architecture to enable efficient and flexible campaign management process in collaboration with business, product and technology partners across the organization.  Ideal candidate for this role is someone who is passionate about good design and great code, who can find elegant solutions to hard technical and functional challenges and can work well within and across teams. 

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior member of an agile team that drives user feature analysis, solution architecture and development
• Prepare technical design documentation and influence/obtain buy in from team, architects and other stakeholders
• Design, develop and deliver elegant, flexible end-to-end software solutions
• Lead design and code reviews
• Drive iterative improvement of tools, automation and practices used by team
• Ensure stability, availability and responsiveness of a suite of critical production applications owned by the team. 
• Ensure adherence to security and control standards
• Scale team’s impact by guiding and mentoring team members
• Foster the spirit of collaboration and enterprise thinking across the organization 
• Stay abreast of industry best practices and emerging trends, evaluate and adopt new technologies, provide thought leadership, drive innovation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with minimum 4+ years of overall software design and development experience.
• Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing.
• Experience with Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring boot frameworks and Web services
• Experience implementing REST or GraphQL services and API's, knowledge of microservices architecture design patterns
• Proficiency developing web front ends with React.js , Node.js, Java Script 
• Knowledge of TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Json, XML
• Knowledge of SQL and experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL
• Experience in designing and developing messaging solutions using Kafka and messaging queues.
• Knowledge of Unix, various Shell Scripting tools
• Experience with test driven development, unit testing, and testing automation tools
• Familiarity with continuous integration/deployment (Jenkins, Maven, XLR ..etc.).
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (GIT)

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 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.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries 
• Bonus incentives 
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) 
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program 
• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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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