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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.

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 on #TeamAmex.

The U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

This team is responsible for Global Customer Personalization products which including API development, batch components and other technology solutions using technologies such as Java, Python, Spring Core, Spring Boot, TestNG, Cucumber & Javascript. This young team has delivered industry leading products with many firsts in the organization. Today we support 21 channels (including Web, Mobile, Voice, Email), daily volume of ~11MM transactions a day and support content across Card, Servicing, Merchant & Membership Reward offers and are expanding rapidly with a focus on building a Global Customer Personalization Product with a focus on driving omni-channel experience for our Card members by delivering world-class innovative.

Our Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day. 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. 

How will you make an impact in this role?

Key Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Own all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications
• Perform hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems
• Functions as senior member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation
• Primary focus (70% ) is spent writing code, API specs, conducting code reviews & testing in ongoing sprints or doing proof of concepts/automation tools, collaborating with stakeholders through ongoing product/platform releases
• Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
• Performs ongoing refactoring of code, uses visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts, and deliver continuous improvement
• Finds opportunities to adopt innovative technologies & ideas
• Provides continuous support for ongoing application availability
• Works with product owners to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues
• Apply best-of-breed technologies to build microservices over existing American Express technologies
• Build POCs to experiment new technologies and constantly pursue and learn industry leading/innovative technologies and solutions
• Collaborate/influence within and across teams to create successes with an innovative mentality to challenge the status quo.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other Technical field or equivalent work experience
• 10 years of experience with Object-Oriented Design and coding with variety of languages.
• 6 Experience in Java, Spring/Spring boot
• Hands on experience of Core Java concepts including Collection, multithreading, Advance Java features
• Hands on experience in building REST APIs
• Experience in RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
• Strong Object-Oriented Programming skills and design patterns
• Experience in Microservice
• Proficient in cloud computing technologies.
• Proficient with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with TDD, BDD and unit testing.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment and their frameworks
• Good knowledge and experience with configuration management tools like GitHub
• Strong analytical and problem-solving aptitude
• Good communication skills and teamwork
• Open-minded and passionate about learning new technologies
• Willingness to learn new technologies and leverage them to their optimal potential

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in Personalization domain.
• Prior experience in high volume, critical, complex and customer applications
• Exposure to Big Data technologies HBase, Hive, Hadoop, Spark etc.

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 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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