Engineer I

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

We are looking for energetic, high-performing and highly skilled Java Full Stack Engineers with some GCP Cloud experience to help shape our technology and product roadmap. You will be part of the fast-paced, entrepreneurial Enterprise Personalization portfolio focused on delivering the next generation global marketing capabilities. This team is responsible for building products that power Merchant Offers personalization for Amex card members.

• Demonstrated leadership in designing sustainable software products, setting development standards, automated code review process, continuous build and rigorous testing etc.
  
• Ability to effectively lead and communicate across 3rd parties, technical and business product managers on solution design
  
• Primary focus is spent writing code, API specs, conducting code reviews & testing in ongoing sprints or doing proof of concepts/automation tools
  
• Applies visualization and other techniques to fast track concepts
  
• Functions as a core member of an Agile team driving User story analysis & elaboration, design and development of software applications, testing & builds automation tools
  
• Works on a specific platform/product or as part of a dynamic resource pool assigned to projects based on demand and business priority
  
• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
  
• Design, develop, and deploy scalable applications on the Google Cloud Platform using Java 8 & above.
  
• In-depth understanding of Google Cloud Platform services and architecture.
  
• Proficiency in developing and deploying applications on GCP using services such as Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud Functions, Big Query, Cloud SQL, DataProc, Dataflow etc.
  
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.
  
• Awareness of best practices for cloud-based application development, ensuring security, reliability, and efficiency.
  
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to application performance and functionality on cloud
  

Qualification:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
  
• 7+ years of experience in software development; 3-5 years in leading teams of engineers
  
• Demonstrated experience with Agile or other rapid application development methods
  
• Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design and coding
  
• Full-Stack development exposure
  
• Demonstrated experience on these core technical skills (Mandatory)
  
• Core Java, Spring Framework, Spring boot, Java EE
  
• Relational Database (Postgres / MySQL / DB2 etc.)
  
• Data Serialization techniques (Ex: Avro)
  
• Cloud development (Micro-services)
  
• Parallel & distributed (multi-tiered) systems
  
• Application design, software development and automated testing
  
• Demonstrated experience on these additional technical skills (Nice to Have)
  
• Unix / Shell scripting
  
• GenNext languages: Python / Scala / Golang / Julia etc
  
• Message Queuing, Stream processing (Kafka)
  
• AJAX tools/ Frameworks.
  
• Web services, open API development, and REST concepts
  
• Experience with implementing integrated automated release management using tools/technologies/frameworks like Maven, Git, code/security review tools, Jenkins, Automated testing and Junit.
  

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.