About the position
At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this 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. Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues. The U.S. Consumer and Digital Technology (USCDT) 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.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and manage enterprise platform and frameworks for Process Management, Case Management, Work Management
- Designing, developing, and supporting shared technology services used by the enterprise
- Writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation
- Taking your place as a core member of an agile team driving the latest development practices
- Finding opportunities for adopting modern technologies
Requirements
- Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical field
- Up to 6 years of software development experience
- Hands on experience in some or all the following Programming Languages and Frameworks: Java, one NoSQL Technology, Redis, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Drools, Elastic Stack, Kafka, Git, RDBMS like Postgres SQL, Spring Boot, multi-threaded programming, Maven, Gradle, JUnit
- Experience in React, Envoy, gRPC, Spark, Consul, RPA (Robotics Process Automation) is a plus
- Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions
- Willingness to learn modern technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability
- Strong experience in applications with high throughput and performance
Benefits
- 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
