Senior Software 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 Express.

How will you make an impact in this role?

designing

Past Experience

8– 12 years’ experience in

• Back-end programming using Java/GoLang/C/C++.
  
• Database: Oracle, Postgres, Any NoSQL DBs.
  
• JSON, JWT, OAuth, SAML, OIDC
  
• Redefining legacy systems into microservices/FaaS
  

Critical Factors to Success (Outcome Driven):

Business Outcomes:

·       Drive cross functional development on entire technology stack for a company to provide consistent application user experience

·       Ensure ease of switching between front end and back end development which results in saving time and money as complexities and problems can be solved by the same person

·       Enhance design structure leading to speed to market: Coding and the design of the site s/he can have a view from above and prevent slip ups that come up during development

Leadership Outcomes:

·       Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role’s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders.

·       Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings

·       Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity

·       Lead with a digital mindset and deliver the world’s best customer experiences every day

Skills/Capabilities

Behavioral

Enterprise Leadership Behaviors

·       Set The Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective

·       Bring Others With You: Build the Best Team, Seek & Provide Coaching Feedback, Make Collaboration Essential

·       Do It The Right Way: Communicate Frequently, Candidly & Clearly, Make Decisions Quickly & Effectively, Live the Blue Box Values, Great Leadership Demands Courage

Functional

·       Strong analytical & strategic thinking skills

·       Ability to interpret technical /business objectives and challenges

·       Software Configuration

·       Agile Methodologies

·       Software development/ testing

·       Hands on experience in using open source frameworks and libraries

·       Designing High Availability applications

Preferred:

·       Product Engineering Knowledge

·       Exposure on Identity systems and related technologies

·       Secure coding practices

Technical/Platforms

·       Java, J2EE

·       Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring security, Vert-x, Relation DBMSs – Oracle, Any NoSQL DB.

·       Microservices, Function as a Service, RESTful API development

·       Source control (Git, Bitbucket, Stack overflow, etc.)

·       Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Maven, XLR, Jacoco, JMeter)

·       Container Concepts (LXD, Docker)

·       Orchestration (Kubernetes/Mesos/Swarm)

Preferred:

·       DevOps, Test Driven Development

·       Data Modelling exposure

·       AWS, GCP exposure

Academic Background

·       Bachelor’s or Master’s in E&C/CSE or Equivalent

• 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