Senior Engineer II

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.

·       Deep understanding of the Product / Technology Platform’s underlying tech stack and its core components

·       Responsible for the applications architecture / technical design & build, work/coordinate with other team’s architect, engineers, and vendors as necessary

·       Strong systems integration architecture skills and a high degree of technical expertise, ranging across several technologies with a proven track record of turning new technologies into business solutions

·       Experience managing in a fast paced, complex and dynamic global environment.

·       External technology contributions (patents, noteworthy Open-Source attributions, publications, etc.)

·       Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels across functions, from both technical and non-technical perspectives

·       Proficient managerial skills as required to operate a large organization, including budgeting, resource planning, staff management, etc.

·       Able to define, influence and deliver software solutions against strategic plans that promote Company Platform objectives

·       Outstanding influential and collaboration skills; ability to drive consensus and tangible outcomes, demonstrated by breaking down silos and fostering cross communication process

·       Technical expertise related to the core components of the Technology Platform’s tech stack, as well as delivery optimization techniques in a ‘total dev’ continuous delivery environment

·       Expert-level relevant hands-on engineering skills across a broad range of technologies, including deep expertise in the construction of enterprise-grade APIs and Services using state-of-the-art techniques (Java, Big Data Technologies, Apache Flink, Microservices, APIs, JSON, XML, REST etc.) that can be readily consumed through a self-service implementation model (full SDK, test stubs, test data, etc.)

·       Able to manage multiple priorities and rapidly guide the organization through change moments

·       Ability to manage large-scale applications in terms of performance, production assurance, capacity planning and threat mitigation

·       Demonstrate accountability, leading people with passion, enthusiasm, loyalty and integrity. Owns and leads HR processes such as employee engagement, performance reviews, talent development, etc.

·       Performing ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast track concepts, and delivering continuous improvement

·       Working with product managers to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues

·       Accountable for team completing work you’re leading and work you are doing as agreed upon

·       Accountable to team for delivery of quality work

·       Serving as a core member of an agile team that leads user story analysis and elaboration, designs and develops software applications

·       Strong thought leadership skills with an ability to problem solve and create strategic plans

7+ years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:

•      Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent is required with hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing
•       Successful engineering and deployment of enterprise-grade technology products in an Agile environment
  
•        Hands-on delivery experience in the fundamental components of the assigned portfolio’s primary technology stack(s) (some of them include Java, Big Data Technologies, Apache Flink, Apache Spark, SingleStore, No-SQL Databases, Relational Databases, Microservices, APIs, JSON, XML, REST etc.)
  
   
• ·       Profound Knowledgebase with Java, Spring, Open source and building RESTful API.
• ·       Expert Java; fluency with Java 17 streams
• ·       Knowledgeable and experienced with real time framework, data streaming like Kafka, Filnk,  In-memory computation and data virtualization tools & techniques  
  
• ·       Knowledgeable and experienced with scripting languages such as Python, etc.
  
• ·       Strong UNIX shell scripting skills
  
• ·       Thorough understanding of XML, JSON, Web Service technologies, and data structure fundamental
• ·       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
  
• ·       Highly proficient in SQL and PL/SQL ; Skilled at optimizing large complicated SQL statements ; Strong PL/SQL skills including complex query building and query performance tuning
  
• ·       Large scale software product engineering experience with contemporary tools and delivery methods in a complex environment (i.e. DevOps, CD/CI, Agile, etc.)
  
• ·       Creation of Engineering Best Practices adopted by a large segment of the technology organization.
  
•      Creation of tools or other technologies that become integral to the operation of the platform.
  
• ·       Successful assimilation of new technology into an existing technology stack
  
• ·       Outstanding influential and collaboration skills; ability to drive consensus and tangible outcomes, demonstrated by breaking down silos and fostering cross communication process
  
• ·       Preferred working experience in Big Data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, , MAPR (plus), NoSQL )
  
• ·       Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate.

·       Knowledge in objected oriented analysis and design across a variety of platforms.

• ·       Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing.
  
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• ·       Ensure data quality and integrity within each data set and support linkage to other appropriate data sets in consistent manner. This includes testing and validating any new database design against previous data structures.
  
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• ·       Demonstrated ability to analyze data concerning production volumes, batch schedules, and i/o statistics.
  
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• ·       Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners.
  
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• ·       Experience with a broad range of software languages and financial business domain knowledge will be a plus
  

• Adaptive Communication
  
• Agile Practices
  
• Industry and Company Knowledge
  
• Organizational Change
  
• Technical Acuity
  
• Technology Industry Trends
  

• Flexibility
  
• Collaboration & Partnership
  
• Continuous Improvement
  
• Courage
  
• Curiosity
• Resourcefulness 
  

• 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