American Express Hiring for Java Engineer at Sunrise, Florida Full Time

Description

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

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible – and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day.

American Express is in the midst of an exciting product and technology transformation driven by an energetic new team of high performers. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative customer data driven products at a rapid pace, serving our consumers seamlessly across physical, digital, mobile, and social media, join our transformation team! A seasoned Senior Software Engineer with a passion to build data intensive systems is wanted to partner with the Customer 360 Platform team in a bid to change the technology landscape.

We are looking for:

• A hands-on Software Engineer with high energy and eager to grow technically.

• Understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns and Reactive Patterns.

• Understanding and familiarity of popular web application JavaScript frameworks (React.js).

• Strong communication skills

• A strategic thinker, capable to clearly illustrate and sell ideas while managing risk.

• Expertise in the definition and implementation of effective software engineering practices and processes that result in high speed to market: i.e. open source style project maintainers, PR review process, issue triage, code reviews, code contribution metrics definition, test automation strategy, CI/CD optimization, etc.

• Responsible for developing proof of concepts, curate tech frameworks and ship software components that will be used as the backbone for the platform and used by tenths of developers.

Job Responsibilities:

The Customer 360 Platform team is responsible for providing a holistic view of the customer to the enterprise systems within the company. Our challenge is to modernize our legacy systems, while providing continuous service excellence to our customers. In this role, you will partner with our talented team to design and build cloud native applications and enhance our portal to provide a more intuitive and seamless user experience. Also, we are embarking on an exciting journey into adopting inner-source culture that will transform the way AMEX builds software.

Qualifications

This high energy Engineer is expected to have:

• 3 years of software engineering experience.

• Java 8 programming is a must. Polyglot experience (Go, node.js) is a super plus.

• Demonstrated experience with front-end design and JavaScript frameworks, specifically React.js.

• Understanding with SQL and NOSQL databases (Couchbase, Elastic Search databases preferred).

• Substantial experience in an agile enterprise setting.

• Demonstrated experience with continuous integration tooling such as Jenkins pipelines.

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or Red Hat Openshift is a plus.

• Experience with GitHub, Git Pages or static website builders

• Experience with CI tools such as CircleCI, GitHub Actions or Jenkins

• Experience with functional programming

• Experience with one or many cloud native and microservice frameworks, such as: Spring Boot, Ktor, Vert.x, Quarkus, Spring Cloud

• Demonstrated experience with advanced Git usage (project maintainer level). Ability to solve complex merges and code integrations

• A proven hunger to learn new technologies and translate them into working software

• Ability to effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on solution design

• Knowledge of risk and credit industry is a plus

• Previous exposure to Domain Driven Design a plus

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

Job: Technology

Primary Location: US-Florida-Sunrise

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 21022102