Software 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform key aspects of software development for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments.
• Function as a member on an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation.
• Leads deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
• Automate deployments in test or production environments.

Minimum Qualifications

• Atleast 4+ years of experience in software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience
• Hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing
• Experience in Agile development methodology.
• Expertise with Java, Microservices, Spring Boot, XML, JSON, Web services technologies, and data structure fundamentals, with experience in multi-threaded programming
• Experience in Vert.x and Reactive programming is an added advantage
• Experience with RESTful API design and development using Java, J2EE, Relational and NoSQL DBMS
• Experience in testing related frameworks and tools (Junit, Cobertura, Mockito, SonarQube, SOAPUI, Postman, JMeter).
• Experience with continuous integration/deployment (Jenkins, Git, Maven, Gradle, XLR).
• Experience in various application monitoring and observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, ELK)
• Knowledge on Designing, building and fine tuning LLMs and GenAI models to solve complex business problems
• Knowledge of advance techniques like Retrieval-Augments Generation (RAG) and prompt engineering
• Ability to effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on architecture and solution design.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required, advanced degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Collaborates with leadership across multiple teams to define solution requirements and implementation Engineering & Architecture
• Demonstrate expertise to help team members overcome software development challenges.
• Solves coding problems outside of day-to-day responsibilities.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• 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

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.