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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.

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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.

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 an experienced, motivated, and collaborative Senior 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.

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- and brown-field projects, learning from, and contributing to your peer group.

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be applying your experience and earned acumen to guide the shape of our platform and help mentor and guide the team.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience

• Understanding of service-based architectures

• Understanding of web applications and use APIs to power them

• Proven experience with live applications and production environments

• 5 years of software development experience with strong knowledge in Java/JVM/Kotlin, Rest APIs and exposure to alternate JVM languages

Technical Skills:

• Creativity & Problem-Solving

• Adaptability & Flexibility

• Aptitude for technology; curiosity, passion and startup mindset

• Applied statistics skills: distributions, statistical testing, regression analysis

• Innovative thinking

• 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

• Web technologies – An in-depth knowledge and experience working with web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, C#, SASS, Stylus, Stylus, Python, and LESS.

• React tools – proficiency in Enzyme, Webpack, Redux, and Flux.

• Web frameworks – Proven expertise in different frameworks like React Native, AngularJS, Angular2, VueJS, SocketIO, Backbone, KnockoutJS, Svelte, and Bootstrap.

• Open-source Libraries – Demonstrable experience with JQuery, MomentJS, html5sql.js, RequireJS, and Loads.

• Software testing tools – A good working knowledge in testing codes using Mocha, Jest, Unit-tests, TDD, Karma, VCS, and Selenium (base).

• Databases – A familiarity of working with different databases such as MySQL, NoSQL(e.g., MongoDB), PostgreSQL, Redis is recommended.

• Cloud management – A strong background in different cloud platforms like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack Apache, and Google Cloud Platform

Qualifications

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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Job: Technology

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Other Locations: US-Florida-Sunrise, US-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24014562