Job Description

You Lead the Way. We've Got Your Back.


With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you'll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that's unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.


At American Express, you'll be recognised 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 let's lead the way together.


Job Requirements:
• Produce high quality code to develop new features and resolve bugs
• Write significant and extensive tests to demonstrate that our code meets our users' requirements
• Ensure that the application is flexible, performant, and able to scale to meet our global users demands
• Ability to work optimally independently and as part of an agile team to help the team achieve its goals
• Critically review code as part of our pull request process
• Deploy applications to test and production environments using CICD tools (i.e. Github Hooks, Jenkins)
• Chip in creatively to the solution of new work and be comfortable challenging the decisions and architecture of the application
• Conduct deep dives to understand trends, generate, and present actionable insights.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports and visualisations to communicate key findings and insights to collaborators to enable data-driven decision-making.

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's or Master's degree or equivalent experience in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering.
• Minimum 2+ years of software development experience in a professional environment working with Java technologies.
• Good familiarity and skills in frontend technologies.
• Understanding of Scripting Languages (Bash / Python etc.)
• Hands-on experience with application design, software development and automated testing
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, relational or NoSQL databases.
• Ability to optimally interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and eloquent solutions.
• Ability to learn and investigate new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
• Ability to debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation.
• Experience working in Agile or other rapid application development methods.
• Proficient oral and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications
• Engineering Degree in computer science, information technology, computer engineering or equivalent stream.
• 2+ years of software development experience in a professional environment working with Java technologies - Vert.x, Spring, Spring Boot, RESTful micro services, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and RESTful API's.
• Strong experience with Frontend Technologies like AngularJS, NodeJs
• Experience of System Design, System Architecture
• Familiarity with Tools like Splunk, ELF/Kibana, Dynatrace
• Hands-on in Unix, Linux, Windows command line
• Be flexible with regards to Technology stack and be ready to learn and support older frameworks like .Net, Jcl, Cobol


We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritise their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:


• 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.