You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.
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.
We are building MARS – simple abbreviation that stands for Modern Accounts Receivable System, but the name symbolizes the scale and ambition of this effort. This is a gigantic effort to build a brand-new global AR platform that transforms many aspects of work at American Express across technology and business. We are building the platform using an event driven micro services architecture. Looking to build a brand-new team to contribute to MARS development that augments a globally distributed team of engineers.
We are looking for a Java Engineer to join the team, this is a dream opportunity for any Engineer wanting to work on cutting edge technology and has enough challenging work to learn, contribute and impress. Our team works in an environment that promotes openness, experimentation, and debates. Winning arguments are always based on logic and never on seniority or title. Come join us to learn, contribute and teach!
How will you make an impact in this role?
- Work closely with Product Managers and Product Owners
- Work closely with a team of Engineers to design, build, test and deploy
- Actively participate in the various engineering forums to learn from others as well as educate others
- Contribute meaningfully toward the continuous improvement of platform and practices
- Stays informed on the latest trends in the industry and at American Express and adopt them as needed
Minimum Qualifications:
- Familiar with Agile development methodologies
- Experience with design and coding across one or more object-oriented platforms and languages
- Java EE – familiarity with building reactive micro services is preferable
- Knowledge of Spring Boot
- Desirable to have cloud experience, especially Docker, Kubernetes and Microservice architecture
- Experience with the Reactive framework such as Spring Webflux or Vert.x
- Desirable to have experience with performance and monitoring tools e.g. Splunk, App Dynamics, Dynatrace
- Knowledge of automated build / continuous delivery, experience of Maven and Jenkins
- Hands-on experience with application design, software development and relational and noSQL databases
- Communicates effectively with Technical, Operational, and Business colleagues
- Must be proactive, enthusiastic, flexible, and results driven
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
To complete your application, please click on the links below. However, if you require any assistance with the completion of this process – or need any reasonable adjustments to be made – then please contact the Recruitment Team on recruitment.support.uk@aexp.com
