Software Engineer III

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 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.

Our Software Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day. Today, innovative ideas, insight and new perspectives are at the core of how we create a more powerful, personal and fulfilling experience for all our customers. So if you’re interested in a career creating breakthrough software and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further.

American Express is entering into a technology transformation phase driven by opportunities to modernize legacy platforms and explore modern software to be on the leading edge of payment card industry. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative products and services at a rapid pace, with deep hands-on experience and strategic thinking, in areas of real time, high available and highly scalable application development, join our Enterprise Architecture (EA) team to help transform the Amex legacy systems to a state of the art distributed and global processing environment. This individual will architect cutting-edge strategies for the payment process using latest computing techniques driving proof of concepts with strong hands-on experience. We expect the individual to be innovative and energetic with strong communications skills to adopt the concepts into production.

EA as an organization aims to set the bar for technology at American Express. The two main drivers of EA’s success are its frameworks (common services to be leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise) and its Major Engagements (high priority, business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support).

• Up to 8 years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:
  
• Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods
  
• Experience with design and coding in Java and across one or more platforms and additional languages as appropriate
  
• Experience with streaming technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Flink and Scala as a programming language preferred
  
• UI experience using React, Node a plus
  
• Backend experience including Apache Cassandra, and relational databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL a plus
  
• Hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing
  
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
  
• Confirmed experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages
  
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferredq
  

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.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• 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.