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As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

American Express entered the travel agency business in 1915, and today is one of the world’s largest luxury travel and lifestyle service networks.  The Travel & Lifestyle Services (TLS) business provides exclusive access, differentiated value, extraordinary service, and unrivalled expertise to Card Members seeking leisure or business travel, as well as a variety of lifestyle services. The Global Digital Customer Experience is a strategic focus area for growth within Travel and Lifestyle Services and there is significant continuing investment to transform and optimize our digital proposition and capabilities. American Express Travel Online not only drives direct revenue and cost savings but also plays an important role in overall Card product engagement, loyalty and satisfaction.

How will you make an impact in this role?

We are looking for a Server-side Engineer to work on Mobile application Service Layer (Backend for Frontend) that will be used by American Express cardholders around the world. We want someone with strong technical skills and creativity. Should enjoy solving tough problems and working with modern technologies. You should not be shy about sharing your ideas and be obsessive about user experience and beautiful code. You will be part of the Travel Mobile App Engineering team whose mandate is to develop travel products and platforms for American Express customers. Mobile Engineering’s aim is to build interactive experiences at all touch points of a consumer's journey whether before, at, or after the time of purchase.
You will be working in a large team of engineers, product people, designers, and QA to build the “Backend for Frontend” API layer consumed by American Express travel mobile app.

Key Responsibilities:

• Software Development

  • Ability to write high quality code to develop server-side application layer in latest version of Kotlin and Spring

  • Demonstrate strong fundamentals with functional programming having strong concepts notably around JSON, Jackson, Coroutines and Streams

  • Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)

  • Participate in code reviews and automated testing

  • Debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation

  • Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments

  • Automate deployments in test or production environments using CI/CD tools

• Leadership

  • Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals
  • Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking

Minimum qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in server side programming, testing, and application design using latest version of Kotlin or previous experience with Java 17 and above

• Experienced working as part of an agile engineering team and contributing to regular agile ceremonies.

• Knowledge of cloud and CI/CD technologies, and how to get code into production quickly and reliably.

Preferred qualifications

• Experienced with backend tech stacks

• Additionally, experienced with Full stack engineering, preferably in developing APIs using Java and Springboot framework.

Non-considerations for sponsorship:

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

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• 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.