Job Description

:You Lead the Way. Weve 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, youll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey thats unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.At American Express, youll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact every colleague has the opportunity to share in the companys success. Together, well win as a team, striving to uphold our and powerful backing promise to provide the worlds best customer experience every day. And well 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.***STOP AND READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS. Please add the Business Unit Job Family paragraph for the job here. Here is where to find the list of Job Family Paragraphs: . Once added, delete these instructions.***How will you make an impact in this role?

• Write clean and concise code that is well-tested, easy to maintain, and consistent with existing patterns in our codebase.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to translate business designs and requirements into functioning applications.
• Developing and integrating java/python/reactjs based application and microservices.
• Collaborating with product owners, delivery managers, and other developers to deliver a quality product.
• Taking ownership and responsibility of the work at hand and shepherding code through to production.
• Actively pair-programming with teammates for collective code ownership and mentoring other engineers.
• Follow the scrum practices to deliver high quality deliverable.

Provide guidance to the team and review the PRs and propose solutions to challenging issues.Preferred Qualifications

• Expert-level knowledge of RxJava, Python and Reactjs and building microservices.
• Expert level understanding of application architecture and design in a cloud-native environment
• In depth Experience with Event Base architecture and implementation.
• Ability to quickly identify coding and environment issues relating to design, stability, and scalability
• Strong experience with developing code for Relational and NoSQL databases.
• Leadership experience in Agile development environment within a heavily matrixed organization
• Automated testing, build automation (Jenkins preferred), and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) across multiple pipelines
• Performance testing experience including root cause analysis and resolution for complicated issues.
• Willingness and ability to lead complex cross-team initiatives without direct authority.
• Learn new technologies quickly, be able to mentor team members, and leverage new technolgy benefits to enhance existing software
• Strong sense of ownership and a big proponent of DevOps culture.
• 6+ years of Software Development experience.
• Preferably a BS or MS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other subject area.
• Showcased and proven experience in core engineering skills in terms of automation of availability, logging, monitoring, B&Cs, alerting etc.
• Strong development and experience with micro services architecture including APIs.
• Deep code analysis and refactoring skills with the goal being proactive platform improvement.
• Ability to perform Root Cause Analysis and resolve short term and long-term fixes very fast.
• Ability to communicate problems/issues across multiple levels of leadership and obtain concurrence on go-forward approach quickly for time-critical issues.
• Ability to drive code review and change review sessions to ensure changes are of acceptable quality.
• Good understanding of Change Management, Problem Management, and Incident Management processes a plus.
• Ability to efficiently interpret Business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions.
• Ability to learn new Technologies and exploit them to their efficient potential.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize 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.

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