At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The core of our company is not just the products we offer, but the personal connections our customers have with our brand. You can create digital experiences - from payments to rewards to servicing - that keep us connected to our customers and serve them at every touchpoint. From digital servicing and lifestyle features to secure, frictionless payment options, you can make a meaningful difference in our customers’ lives and help set us apart in the industry.  

The Financial Insights and Tools group within Digital Banking is responsible for software that enhance the American Express customer experience by providing applications and supporting platforms to enrich the information, analysis and planning available to our customers. Our software will be threaded through the web and mobile applications used by American Express customers, powered by APIs and underlying platforms to consume, and process financial data both within and from outside our company. 

We are looking for a motivated, and collaborative Software Engineer to help us achieve our goals of building noteworthy high quality financial analysis and tools for our customers. We want you to help provide technical expertise and acumen to our growing team in pursuit of our customer experience goals. 

Our platform is built on top of a modern stack consisting of Kotlin/JVM for the back end interacting with other Java/JVM services internally, and a React based front end. We reach out to many APIs internally and externally to aggregate and analyze customer information. We are in a period of expansion and growth and thus we are looking for members to join the team to help us. 

Responsibilities:   

As a developer, you will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of your software from inception to production, working on a mixture of green-field and brown-field projects, learning from, and contributing to your peer group.  Participate in code review and design of systems from members of all levels.  Collaborate within the group and across American Express to design and integrate functionality and features.  Partner with our Product Management team to refine functionality and features.  

Qualifications:   

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience  Fundamental strength in computer science with a demonstrable understanding of computational complexity and data structures.  Understanding of service-based architectures  Understanding of web applications and use APIs to power them  Proven experience with live applications and production environments

Technical Skills: 

Creativity & Problem-Solving Adaptability & Flexibility  Aptitude for technology; curiosity, passion and startup mindset  Practical application and understanding of computer science concepts  Applied statistics skills: distributions, statistical testing, regression analysis  Innovative thinking  Software testing acumen (unit test, integration tests)  Java/Kotlin/JVM  Databases: Postgres, MongoDB, Redis  Source Code Control: Working experience using GitHub, Bitbucket, RhodeCode  Production monitoring and logging tools (i.e. CloudWatch, Prometheus, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, ELF)  Container orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, GCP GKE, AWS ECS, AWS EKS  CI/CD platforms (we are using GitHub Actions)  Other: Git, Gitflow, Jira, Gitlab, Trello, Scrum  Frameworks: Ktor, Spring

  Other Skills (that will be a plus):  

Full stack experience and willingness to dive into other levels of web applications  Cloud management and deployment – A strong background in different cloud platforms like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack Apache, and Google Cloud Platform  Databases – A familiarity of working with different databases such as Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB), Redis is recommended.  Web technologies – knowledge and experience working with web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, C#, SASS, Stylus, Stylus, Python, and LESS.  Web frameworks – knowledge and experience working with different frameworks like React Native, AngularJS, Angular2, VueJS, SocketIO, Backbone, KnockoutJS, Svelte, and Bootstrap.  Software testing tools – A good working knowledge in testing code using Mocha, Jest, Unit-tests, TDD, Karma, VCS, and Selenium (base). 

Annual 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 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  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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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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