Software Engineer III

American Express Global Card Network Platform authorizes and processes all of the company's customer card transactions. The Card Network platform is the critical back bone for all of American Express card transactions and is a near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year. American Express is making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to allow the company to meet its ambitious global growth agenda. American Express is looking for strong leaders and engineers to be part of high energy and efficient teams that will build and support our next generation card network systems.

How will you impact the Role

As an Engineer III, you will be a hands-on engineer building highly available and scalable distributed system on the cloud that supports the company's long-term strategy and vision. Your primary responsibility is design and develop our next generation distributed transaction platform supporting Amex card transactions.

Key Initiatives:

• Card Network Authorizations/Routing, Card Tokenization, Clearing and Settlement
  
• Omni-channel platforms and partner connectivity management
  
• Data Localization and Regulatory Compliance
  
• ATM, Debit, Credit and Push Payment Transactions, Real Time Settlement
  
• Platform Engineering and Foundational Capabilities of distributed systems
  
• High Availability, Resiliency and Performance Engineering on Cloud
  

Responsibilities Include:

• Designs, develops, solves problems, debugs, evaluates, modifies, deploys, and documents software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.
  
• You will constantly pursue and learn industry leading/innovative technologies and solutions. Be acutely aware of enabling technologies and open-source products to build low latency distributed systems.
  
• Embrace a culture of innovation and experimentation, engage in fun and outcome-oriented culture, and always be ready to try new concepts without fear of failure.
  

Qualifications:

• B.Tech. / B.E. / M.Tech. / M.S. in Computer Science or relevant discipline
  
• 5+ years of hands-on experience building scalable, high-performance platforms and microservices.
  
• Strong proficiency in Golang and microservice architecture.
  
• Solid understanding of network protocols especially gRPC and REST.
  
• Experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ for event-driven communication.
  
• Working knowledge of Redis and other NoSQL technologies.
  
• Familiar with unit testing frameworks and code quality tools (e.g., JUnit, Jest, Sonar).
  
• Practical experience in CI/CD and cloud-native environments using Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS, etc.
  
• Exposure to logging and monitoring tools like ELK, Splunk, Grafana, or Dynatrace.
  
• Passion for clean, efficient code and continuous improvement.
  
• Fast learner, adaptable to new technologies and evolving systems.
  
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  Strong communicator and collaborative team player.
  
  

• 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