Engineer I

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 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.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Perform hands-on software development, includes designing, writing code, API specs, doing proof of concepts, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints
• Drive consistent development practices - Tools and common components
• Develop deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features
• Maintain code integrity and organization
• Understand and implement security and data protection
• Work with technical product managers contributing to blueprints, and assisting with annual planning of feature sets
• Identify exciting opportunities for adopting new technology to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges

Past Experience

6 – 8 years’ experience in :-

• Back-end programming using Java/J2EE/GoLang
• Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring security, Vert-x. 
• Front-end programming using React , JS(ES6+ syntax), HTML5, Redux, CSS preprocessor , CSS3, Webpack, Mocha/Jest, Cypress
• Database: Oracle, Any NoSQL DBs.
• JSON, JWT, OAuth, SAML, OIDC
• Redefining legacy systems into microservices/FaaS

Critical Factors to Success (Outcome Driven):

Business Outcomes:

• Drive cross functional development on entire technology stack for a company to provide consistent application user experience
• Ensure ease of switching between front end and back end development which results in saving time and money as complexities and problems can be solved by the same person
• Enhance design structure leading to speed to market: Coding and the design of the site s/he can have a view from above and prevent slip ups that come up during development

Leadership Outcomes:

• Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role’s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders.
• Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings
• Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity
• Lead with a digital mindset and deliver the world’s best customer experiences every day

Skills/Capabilities

Behavioral

Enterprise Leadership Behaviors

• Set The Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective
• Bring Others With You: Build the Best Team, Seek & Provide Coaching Feedback, Make Collaboration Essential
• Do It The Right Way: Communicate Frequently, Candidly & Clearly, Make Decisions Quickly & Effectively, Live the Blue Box Values, Great Leadership Demands Courage

Functional

• Strong analytical & strategic thinking skills
• Ability to interpret technical /business objectives and challenges
• Software Configuration
• Agile Methodologies
• Software development/ testing
• Hands on experience in using open source frameworks and libraries
• Designing High Availability applications
  Preferred:
• Product Engineering Knowledge 
• Exposure on Identity systems and related technologies
• Secure coding practices

Technical/Platforms

• Java, J2EE
• Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring security, Vert-x, Relation DBMSs – Oracle, Any NoSQL DB.
• Microservices, Function as a Service, RESTful API development, gRPC
• Source control (GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.)