At American Express, you ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company s success. Together, we ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world s best customer experience every day. And we ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.
Join Team Amex and lets lead the way together.
About Enterprise Architecture:
Enterprise Architecture is an organization at American Express, and it is a key enabler of the company s technology strategy. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:
1. Architecture as Code
: this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.
2. Architecture as Design
: this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.
3. Governance
: this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards, and developing innovative tools that automate controls to ensure compliance.
4. Colleague Enablement:
this pillar is focused on colleague development, recognition, training, and enterprise outreach.
American Express is looking for a Senior Engineer to join its Engineering Team to help build the future of fintech business. You would help us build, and test new features, execute on our product roadmap, and help drive software and technology decisions.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build and manage enterprise platform and frameworks for Managed File Transfers
- Designing, developing, and supporting world class applications using full stack development tools like React JS, Springboot, java & Oracle db on the cloud
- Taking your place as a core member of an agile team driving the latest development practices
- Writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation
- Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies
Mentor a team of engineers on their technical skills. Provide timely feedback and help them grow within Amex.
Ensure team contributes to company standards (e.g. design, code reviews and writing beautiful, pragmatic code). Coach, guide and promote creation of high quality, clearly documented, and compliant deliverables across engineering teams.
Work with product team closely to understand the product and customer needs; and enable the product and customer vision for the company. Collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders within business and technology teams to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases.
Engage in hands-on design and ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods with software engineers and architects to execute product roadmaps
Drive innovation within a fast-paced agile environment
Qualifications
Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science , computer engineering, or related experience required
7+ years of software development experience , 2+ years team lead experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience
- Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions
- Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability.
- Strong experience in applications with high throughput and performance
- Experience with micro services architectures and service mesh technologies
- Must be able to demonstrate the following technical, functional, leadership and business core competencies, including: