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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.

The American Express payment network processes and authorizes millions of card transactions daily, this network is the critical backbone for all American Express payment transactions and is built upon real time, low latency & highly available components. We design, develop & deliver secure services for both the core payment platforms & customer facing services.As a Software Engineer, you’ll help to build world class software through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation). You’ll contribute to the design, development, troubleshooting, debugging, evaluation, modification, deployment, and documentation of software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.We are looking for an energetic and creative senior software engineer with experience in the fundamentals of web engineering. The role’s primary focus will involve solution design with the architecture team to ensure the developed capability is secure, responsive and meets the customer needs.As a Senior Engineer, you will lead a scrum team in building these core features and deploy to in a private cloud service within the American Express infrastructure.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Serve as a core team member to drive user story analysis, design, and delivery of responsive backend services - utilising best engineering principles
Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities
Familiarity with API & integration patterns to securely communicate with backend services and clients
Work in an agile delivery team, with familiarity with the processes and ceremonies.
Has a drive to learn industry leading/innovative technologies and solutions
Good positive attitude, communication, willingness to learn and share with others
Effective in managing work priorities and your time - both independently and as part of a team
Bring a culture of innovation and experimentation, as well as manage risk taking to implement creative ideas.
Bring a culture of continuous improvement and willingness to challenge the status quo
Guide and mentor other engineers and collaborate with external teams & the Product Owner
Design and coding of user stories for distributed, scalable, high performant and systems using Java
Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation.
Contribute to the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
Collaborate with peer technology and development teams across international locations.
Sharing best practices and mentoring of new team members.
Support design architect and present new solutions and services.
Document technical solutions, operational support guides.

Minimum Qualifications:

Scalable applications running on Vert.x, Spring Boot or similar using Java v8+
RxJava, Reactor, Kafka
Java NIO and NIO.2
Secure integration with API Gateways using REST endpoints
SQL Products: Oracle, Postgres
NoSQL Products: Redis, Couchbase, Cassandra
Services running on private cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, Openshift)
University Degree in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent experience.
Significant hands-on experience on enterprise software development.
Advanced technical skills in the areas of microservices, APIs, distributed Messaging and Java 11 or later

Preferred Qualifications:

Significant hands-on experience on enterprise software development.
Certification in Java or other technology products.
Experience with other JVM languages e.g. Groovy, Kotlin.
Financial Transaction knowledge – Domain knowledge in ISO8583 messages, Payment Authorizations, Acquirers, Payment Networks, Issuers, Processors.
Design patterns (including disruptor pattern).
Messaging and distributed systems using Kafka event streams.
Design and deploy low latency systems and performance optimisation.
Designing and building Cloud native applications for cloud platforms using Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.

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
Support for financial-well-being and retirement
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
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

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

Senior Engineer II