Software Engineer III

American Express is undergoing a digital transformation, and this role is for a Software Engineer III to contribute to building world-class Unified Experience/Omnichannel and personal integration using Microservices and APIs. The role involves designing, developing, troubleshooting customer-facing and internal applications, contributing to agile software builds, analyzing business requirements, performing PR reviews, automating deployments, and scaling applications.

Must Have

• Design, architect, develop, and code software
• Contribute to software builds with consistent practices
• Analyze business requirements for technology solutions
• Conduct PR reviews and automated testing
• Collaborate with product management on roadmap
• Lead with focus on resiliency, customer experience, monitoring, recovery
• Automate deployments in test or production environments
• Scale applications automatically based on demand
• Achieve team goals with self-reliance
• Influence team with innovative improvements
• Act as a productivity multiplier for the team
• Own all technical aspects of software development
• 3-5 years software development experience
• Proficiency in REACT, JavaScript, Java, REST API, SDK building, Networking
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Experience with databases (DB2, Oracle, Exadata, Big Data)
• Experience building solutions on Cloud Architecture
• Advanced experience in Test automation and scripting
• Advanced experience with performance tuning
• Effective communication with third parties, technical, and business managers
• Ability to think abstractly and solve ambiguous problems
• Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation
• Experience with web services, Open API development, SOA concepts
• Willingness to learn new technologies and develop software quickly

Good to Have

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
• Exposure to Industry reference architecture of data management and NextGeneration tools and process
• Experience with payments technology and industry

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• Support for financial well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements
• Generous paid parental leave policies
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors
• Free and confidential counseling support through Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

Work Location Options:

Hybrid

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

American Express is on an exciting transformation journey driven by an energetic new team of high performers. This group is nimble and creative with the power to shape our technology and product roadmap. If you have the talent and desire to lead and deliver innovative digital transformation products using the latest user interface, data processing, servicing technologies. Build top of the chain digital experience at a rapid pace, serving our customers seamlessly across physical, digital, join our transformation team!

You will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering world class Unified Experience / Omnichannel and personal integration through data driven, services using Microservices, APIs. You will be challenged with identifying innovative and transformative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers.

Focus - Design, development, troubleshooting, and debugging of work efforts for customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end-user applications.

Organizational Context - Member of engineering & product for delivery and integration

Key Responsibilities

• Perform technical aspects of software development for assigned applications including design, architecture, developing prototypes, and hands- on coding assignments of various technologies.
• An Engineer in an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Performs Analysis of business requirements to identify and recommend technology solutions.
• PRs reviews and automated testing
• Work closely with product Management product owners in defining roadmap
• Leads with engineering mindset of high resiliency, customer experience, built-in monitoring and recovery (Graceful Degradation)
• Automate deployments in test or production environments, identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
• Automatically scale applications based on demand projections Leadership
• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals
• Influence team members with innovative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking
• Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analyzing your work flow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.
• Owns all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications

Qualification Highly Desirable

• 3 to 5 years of software development experience in a professional environment such as:
• Wide breath of digital engineering
• Proficiency in anyone of these or combined -- REACT, Java Script, Java, REST API development, SDK building, Networking topologies,
• Demonstrated experience with Agile methodology
• Demonstrated experience with databases like DB2, Oracle, Exadata, Big Data
• Demonstrated experience to build solutions on Cloud Architecture
• Advanced experience in Test automation, Test scripting.
• Advanced experience with performance tuning
• Ability to effectively communicate across third parties, technical, and business product Managers on solution design
• Ability to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems
• Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation
• Experience with web services and Open API development, as well as SOA concepts,
• Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience, is preferred
• Exposure to Industry reference architecture of data management and NextGeneration tools and process
• Experience with payments technology and industry is a plus

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
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• 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

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.