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 recognised 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.   

From building next-generation apps and microservices to using AI to help protect our customers from fraud, you could be doing transformational work that brings our iconic, global brand into the future. As a part of our tech team, we could work together to bring ground-breaking and diverse ideas to life that power the digital systems, services, products and platforms that millions of customers around the world depend on. If you love to work with APIs, contribute to open source, or use the latest technologies, we’ll support you with an open environment and learning culture to grow your career.

This is a great opportunity to join Global Network Services Technology (GNST) where we are partnering with the product teams to deliver an exciting Global Payment Network that has been designed and built from scratch to run in our private cloud, using nothing but the latest and best technology stack available in the industry.  

How will you make an impact in this role?

50% of your time spent on coding  Work with Staff Architects and Product Owners to define solution requirements  Drive both high-level and detailed technical designs and conduct design reviews as needed Define the long term technical strategy of the platform to support product roadmaps Provide technical mentorship to other software engineers at all levels Implement new, highly scalable platform components Improve and maintain existing components of the core platform Actively participate in team and company-wide architecture and engineering discussions and forums Employ technical expertise to help team members overcome technical problems Enforce to release/project schedule and sprint achievements   Responsible for health and quality of the code across the portfolio, including leadership over SCM, functional testing, and CI/CD tool integration 

Minimum Qualifications:

Significant active engineering experience in a complex environment and/or comparable experience such as:  Successful engineering and deployment of enterprise-grade technology assets in an Agile product environment Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related field required; advanced degree preferred  Hands-on coding experience in the platform’s primary technology stack (Java or Golang, Spring boot, Vertx, Couchbase, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Splunk, Envoy) Experience with development tools: Jenkins, XL Release Expertise in building fault-tolerant, scalable solutions that are performed at a global enterprise scale  Full understanding of Service Oriented Architecture design principles and implementation patterns  Ability to construct enterprise-grade APIs using state-of-the-art techniques and best practices (REST, JSON, XML, etc.)  Proficient in cross-platform integration  Advanced engineering skill with wide-ranging experience; able to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways  SDLC Methodologies and Practices  Experience in the card payment network domain is a HUGE plus!

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.