Senior Software Engineer -Digital Banking

American Express • Phoenix, AZ

130d • $123,000 - $215,250

About The Position

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. Global Loyalty & Benefits is in the middle of an exciting transformation journey, and we need talented engineers who are willing to learn, collaborate, innovate, and adapt to emerging trends and customer demands. Our Loyalty platforms enable many of Amex's most critical customer differentiators including the flagship Membership Rewards program, and we are constantly seeking new ways to offer value to our customers and drive growth for the company. We are looking for an innovative, experienced, and talented senior software engineer to join our Data Publishing domain team. You will work closely with our product and development teams to develop new system capabilities at scale and optimize existing capabilities. As part of the Data Publishing team, you will be responsible for building and maintaining highly available and high-performance stateless service that needs to perform 10,000+ tps. You will also be responsible for the core components that make up our modern microservice platform, driving performance and resiliency, as we scale to take over our classic applications. This role also requires close collaboration with multiple stakeholders with excellent communication.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software development experience, with a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline.
• Experience in designing and implementing highly scalable, low latency Go based applications.
• Core competencies in cloud-native, distributed technologies including Java, Go, Kotlin, APIs (REST), Kafka, Elastic, Couchbase, JUnit, Jenkins, and Maven applications.
• Team player and a hands-on engineer.
• Experience leading, mentoring and coaching junior engineers.
• Hands on experience in multi-threading/concurrency programming.
• Working knowledge of http(s), tcp/ip, and ssh protocols.
• Basic high availability techniques and implementation knowledge.
• Practical knowledge of caching and distributed systems.
• Staying in touch with industry standards and current technologies is expected.
• Hands-on experience in implementing web applications and API services using REST.
• Experience in profiling / performance analysis of applications.
• Commitment to software practices of continuous Integration, automated/repeatable testing, and collaborative work environments.
• Ability to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems.
• Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation.
• Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software.
• Experience working with streaming solutions is highly desirable (preferably Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams).
• Hands on experience in the full stack software development is desirable.
• Knowledge/experience on Google Cloud Platform is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Serving as a core member of an engineering team that designs and develops software applications.
• The design of the systems, accounting for reliability and availability including identifying and handling failure modes.
• Writing code and unit tests, working on API specs, automation, and conducting code reviews and testing, and documenting processes.
• Identifying exciting opportunities for adopting new technologies to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges.
• Performing ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts, and delivering continuous improvement.
• Working with product managers to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues.

Benefits

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree