Senior 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, youll 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? Key Responsibilities Functioning as a senior member of an Agile team helping drive consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation). Analyzing business features and user stories and refining with the Product Owner to appropriately support design and build activities. Working with Product Owners to prioritize features and manage a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues. Performing all technical development for assigned applications including architecture, design, developing prototypes, writing new code and APIs, and performing unit and assembly testing of developed software also as needed. Hand-on architecture working closely with technical architects and architecture governance technical team for solution development and design reviews. Supporting integration and performance tests and providing demo of results to technical and product partners Performing peer code reviews, making deliberate short- and long-term design decisions and keeping constant focus on clearing technical debt items in the backlog Enabling the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the core and associated domains. Typically spends 50-60% of time writing code and testing, and remainder of time managing team and stakeholders through ongoing product/platform release sprints. Works closely with product owners on blueprints and annual planning of feature sets that impact multiple platforms and products. Manages and mentors teams of junior and senior engineers through ongoing sprints. Communicating to stakeholders and business partners on the solution and the implementation aspects at the technical and/or functional level appropriate for the situation Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by demonstrating risk taking. Minimum Qualifications 10+ years of software development experience 10+ years of development experience with Java (minimum Java 8) Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing. Strong technical capability with an intense desire to learn new skills and industry trends. Collaborative work ethics to thrive on peer support and taking pride in of products and capabilities delivered as a team. Ability to balance priorities and break down complex problems to manageable chunks that can be delivered incrementally. Hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Micro-services, Relational and/or NoSQL databases. Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages and proven ability to understand and use complex data structures and associated components. Deep understanding of multithreading concepts with experience of developing robust and scalable distributed server-side applications and algorithms Must be willing and able to express new ideas, concerns, and opinions directly to wider team including tech and business partners in team meetings in person or video/tele conferencing. Desirable to have experience of writing applications for deployment on cloud environment including OpenShift and Docker containers. Desirable to have experience with performance and monitoring tools e.g., Splunk and App Dynamics Analytical skills and knack of looking for non-obvious solutions. Should have worked on RESTful API design and implementation. Implementation or working experience of Continuous Integration and Continues Delivery using tools and automation capabilities such as JUnit, Mocking, TestNG, Jenkins, Git, Stash and Jira