Software Engineer III

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 #TeamAmex and let’s lead the way together.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives.  Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems.  American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source.  And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in The Enterprise Data Management organization brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in data quality, data governance, data privacy, AI/ML, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data management. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer and regulatory capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

Responsibilities:

            •          Working closely with Engineering teams, Architects and Product Owners in analyzing business features and refining them to appropriately support design and build activities.

            •          Performing all technical development for assigned applications including architecture, design, developing prototypes, writing new code and API's and performing unit and assembly testing of developed software also as needed

            •          Coding and technical implementation of re-usable enterprise solutions

            •          Enabling the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments

            •          Combine Data Science and Engineering skills to solve interesting problems that directly and greatly impact millions of individuals worldwide

            •          Help craft the direction of machine learning and artificial intelligence at AmEx

Minimum Qualifications:

            •          Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Statistics or related fields.


            •          3 to 5 years of software development experience

            •          Strong analytical skills and programming skills, with experience with deployment in production environment.


            •          3+ years hands-on experience with the following technologies:

            •          JAVA & Python


            •          Big Data – Spark/Hive/Hbase

            •          SQL/ NoSQL


            •          REST API and services


            •           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

            •          Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment


            •          Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners

• 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