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?

Global Merchant Services Technology is on an exciting journey to redefine the merchant payment experience. Our Merchant platform is a distributed near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year.

If you’re interested in crafting breakthrough software and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further! Our Software Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day. Innovation is at the core of how we build a more powerful, personal and fulfilling experience for our customers.

As a Software Engineer in GMST you will be responsible for:-

• Crafting solutions that are scalable and can be delivered iteratively to enhance business value.

• Building core features & functions of card transaction systems on our distributed platform deployed in the cloud. 

• Actively participating in agile teams and the latest development practices, writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation.

• Providing technical leadership to engineers to aid in the development of engineers within the team. 

• Using Java Technologies to drive innovation while also finding opportunities to adopt new technologies.

   

• Degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field.

• Significant hands-on experience in application architecture / design, software development, and testing, preferably in an Agile environment within a professional environment.
• Minimum 10 years of proven experience using Java, React, Vert.x, Spring, Spark, Postgres, Ignite, Restful APIs, Redis, Kafka.
• Strong engineering and professional leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, partner, and collaborate multi-functionally across many engineering teams.
  

• 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