Software Engineer III (Java Backend)

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express. As an Engineer, Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing:

• Function as a member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development and test practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation.
• Perform technical development for applications including architecture, design, developing prototypes, writing new code and API's and performing unit and assembly testing of developed software also as needed.
• Hand-on architecture working closely with solution architects and architecture governance technical team for solution development and design reviews.
• Typically spends 60-70% of time writing code and testing, and remainder of time managing team and stakeholders through ongoing product/platform release sprints.
• Perform code reviews, make design decisions and ensure constant focus on quality and clearing technical debt items in the backlog.
• You will be using Java Technologies – Vertx, Spring MVC, Spring Data and Spring Boot and RESTful micro services. - Build & Maintain new RESTful APIs on Cloud Platform (eCP) using MapR DB and any NoSQL DBs.
• Improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability of our data pipelines.
• Work on cross-functional initiatives and collaborate with Engineers across the organizations.
• Build CICD pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
• Build automation for application changes and deployment for faster time to market.
• Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
• Perform ongoing refactoring of code, quality assurance and testing, applying best practice methodologies and processes.
• Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies & ideas in development / test area.
• Provide continuous support for ongoing application availability.
• Collaborate/influence within and across teams to create successes with an innovative mindset and challenge the status quo.

Minimum Qualifications

• Computer Science, or equivalent degree or industry experience.
• 5+ years of software development experience in a professional environment.
• Strong OOPs concepts, concurrency, exception handling etc.
• Data structures and Algorithms, Strong OS fundamentals, Advanced Java concepts
• Strong development experience using languages Java/ Go. Keen understanding of how to build highly performant systems with such languages.
• Hands on experience in building distributed micro-service systems, experience with Service Mesh products/frameworks like such as Envoy, Linkerd, Istio, gRPC/ProtoBuf; Distributed System Management/tracing and monitoring such as Zipkin/Jaeger, ELK Stack, Prometheus.
• Have experience in designing and building Cloud native applications. Experience in cloud platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift are a plus.
• Experience in using NoSQL databases and distributed messaging systems such as Redis, Kafka, Couchbase, Cassandra in the context of low latency and high transaction volume systems.
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment tools such as Jenkins, GitHub
• Experience working in DevOps teams and Scrums.

• Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
  

• Proficient oral and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience of writing applications for deployment on cloud environment including OpenShift and Docker containers.
• Experience on RESTful API design and implementation is a plus
• 1-2 years of experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) / Behavior Driven Development (BDD) practices, unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing and web service testing. - Experience with automated release management using Maven, Git, Jenkins.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery environment
• Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels across functions, from both technical and non-technical perspectives alike.

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

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.