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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.

Key Responsibilities:

Write code/APIs for Java based application for real time application. Deliver technical solutions to problems identified and make architectural recommendations along with process conformance for incident, problem, change management, and compliance. Drive the resolution of problems by identifying the root cause and implementing architecture/code fixes.

Analyze the existing technology environment and architecture, to develop technical/architectural recommendations to improve system/application performance and lead improvement implementation.

Drive continuous improvement to reduce MTTR (Mean Time to Recovery) and MTTD (Mean Time to Detection) on production impacts. Proactively address gaps with stability issues across infrastructure environment. High Performance Behaviours:
- Owns the health and quality of the code across the portfolio
- Ensure streamlined CI/CD pipeline from the teams
- Collaborates with leadership across multiple teams to define solution requirements and technical implementation
- Demonstrate technical expertise to help team members overcome technical problems
- Solves technical problems outside of day-to-day responsibilities
- Contributes to the success of many teams achieving their goals
- Develop team’s strategy and prioritize initiatives
- Assist in retaining and hiring talented team members Knowledge/Skills:
- Able to communicate complex data structures and associated components
- Designs, codes, tests, maintains, and documents applications
- Lead reviews of colleagues' work
- Defines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications provided
- Has in depth understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)
- Deep understanding of infrastructure, technologies, and components
- Able to assess and interview team members to identify and develop talent
- Making impactful changes by influencing leadership and making timely decisions - Consistent track record to influence technological growth across teams Technology Skills You'll Use Every Day:
- Adaptive Communication
- Agile Practices
- Industry and Company Knowledge
- Organizational Change
- Technical Acuity
- Technology Industry Trends

 

Game Changers:
- Flexibility
- Collaboration & Partnership
- Continuous Improvement
- Courage
- Curiosity
- Resourcefulness
- Servant Leadership
- Tenacity

 

Role/Strengths You’ll Need: Technical
- Emerging Technologies
- Programming/Software Development
- Systems Design

-Best Practices for Software Development life cycle

- Testing

Functional
- Business Analysis
- Data Management
- Release and Deployment
- Systems Development Management
- User Experience Evaluation and Analysis Leadership
- Analytical Thinking
- Building High Performance Teams
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Decision-making
- Executive Presence
- Influence and Negotiation Business
- Business Product Knowledge
- Problem Solving

Minimum Qualifications:

8+ years of Java (API, REST, KOTLIN ) development experience in a complex environment, such as: large scale web infrastructure or development team.

software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as: - Wide breath of engineering experience
- Validated experience leading teams of engineers
- Hands-on expertise with application design, software development, and automated testing

- Relational Databases: Oracle, DB2
- NoSQL: Redis, Couchbase
- Exposure to Cloud computing technologies
- Compliance Domain knowledge and work experience a plus.

- Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred

Understanding of monitoring technologies including various logging frameworks and tooling.

Engineering and Understanding of micros-service architecture, application system design scalable architecture.

Maintain and enhance monitoring framework (data collection, alert aggregation and enhance alerting logic).

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

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.  

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