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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.

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As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives.Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems.American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source.And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development.Find your place in technology of #TeamAmex.

We are building an energetic, high-performance team with a nimble and creative mindset to drive our technology and products. American Express (AXP) is a powerful brand, a great place to work and has unparalleled scale. Join us for an exciting opportunity in the Eligibility Marketing Technology team within American Express Technologies. This team is responsible for building platforms to support marketing campaigns processes,audience selection and activation at American Express.

American Express seeks an Engineer to be part of an exciting and fast-paced entrepreneurial team focused on delivering the next generation marketing tech capabilities, innovative R&D products, lead the tool chain automation for continuous build and deployment as well building solutions for Next-gen BigData platform. Function as a core member of an Agile team driving user story analysis and elaboration, design, and development of software applications. Work on specific platforms and products or as part of a dynamic resource pool assigned to projects based on demand and business priority.

Responsibilities:

• As a part of our team, you will be developing innovative, high quality, and robust operational engineering capabilities.
• Develop software in our technology stack which is constantly evolving but currently includes Big data, Java/Spark/Scala and RESTful APIs
• Work with Business partners and stakeholders to understand functional requirements, architecture dependencies, and business capability roadmaps.
• Create technical solution designs to meet business requirements.
• Taking your place as a core member of an Agile team driving the latest development practices
• Identify and drive reengineering opportunities, and opportunities for adopting new technologies and methods.
• Suggest and recommend solution architecture to resolve business problems.
• Perform peer code review and participate in technical discussions with the team on the best solutions possible

Minimum Qualifications

• 2 years of hands-on Software Development experience in Big data, Spark related technologies
• BS or MS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical field or equivalent work experience
• Strong expertise in SQL and database theory, and data analytics
• Strong Object-Oriented Programming skills and design patterns.
• Strong CI/CD and testing practices.
• Good knowledge and experience with configuration management tools like GitHub.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving proficiency.
• Good communication skills and teamwork.
• Understanding of various SDLC methodologies, particularly Agile.

Preferred Qualifications

• Scala hands-on development
• Proven end-to-end application development and deployment.
• Open-minded and passionate about learning new technologies.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and leverage them to their optimal potential

Salary Range: $70,000.00 to $135,000.00 annually bonus benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

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 
• 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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