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American Express Senior Engineer in New York, New York
Description
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.
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. Amex 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 in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.
How will you make an impact in this role?
Our Global Commercial Services team is seeking a driven, well-rounded computer science professional to join our growing team. You must be a self-starter! Eager to learn new technology trends, and partner with the business teams to ensure technology changes do not impact our customers. If you are an engineer with a passion for operating things and the desire to understand full stack (business down to infrastructure), and you embrace the instinct to code problems away, then this dynamic role is for you!
Roles & Responsibilities
Lead the analysis, high level & low level design for product enhancements & new capabilities.
Collaborate with architects & peers to design applications that aligns with long term architecture strategy and Enterprise guidelines.
Provide technical leadership to team members by mentoring & coaching, design & code reviews etc.,
Proactively identify technical debts in the platform and prioritize with product owners to resolve them before it results in production impact.
Maintain high standards of software quality by defining & enforcing best practices & processes for teams to follow
Lead with “Automation mind-set” - Eliminate repetitive manual process through automation.
Work with various stakeholders to plan the releases, identify risks & mitigation throughout project lifecycle.
Understand platform roadmap and contribute to the platform strategy initiatives.
Stay current on the enterprise initiatives, mandatory compliance/regulatory technical requirements and ensure the requirements are met.
Leadership
Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals
Influence team members with creative changes and improvements, challenge status quo and demonstrate taking risks.
Continuously identify opportunities to improve efficiency of the team by analyzing existing workflow, driving the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.
Mentor and guide junior team members to success within the team
Excellent communication & co-ordination skills
Minimum Qualifications
Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in related field preferred; proven industry experience.
8 years of software engineering, architecture experience.
Proven ability to architect, design & implement scalable, resilient, highly available solutions to complex business problems.
Experience in leading 1 or more scrum teams and providing technical directions to the teams.
Experience supporting production issues with on-call support.
Knowledge/Skills
Significant expertise in architecture & design patterns, designing & building enterprise applications.
Experience in cloud platforms is a plus.
Hands on experience in designing & developing applications using Java 11 or higher with Spring framework, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Spring Security or similar security frameworks, RDBMS(Postgres/Oracle or similar), Containerization etc.,
Hands-on experience in analyzing production issues using logging, monitoring & alerting tools.
Thorough knowledge on application security guidelines & vulnerabilities management
Experience on DevOps related practices such as CI/CD, Logging, Observability, Monitoring etc.,
Thorough knowledge of multi-tier application architectures.
Proven experience in driving test automation using test frameworks
Knowledge and understanding of the SDLC principles and key controls
Good understanding of BDD & TDD practices.
Qualifications
Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 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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Job: Technology
Primary Location: US-New York-New York
Other Locations: US-Georgia-Atlanta
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 23012160