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You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

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 Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.

About Enterprise Architecture:

Enterprise Architecture is an organization within the Chief Technology Office at American Express and it is a key enabler of the company’s technology strategy. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:

1. Architecture as Code : this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.

2. Architecture as Design : this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.

3. Governance : this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards, and developing innovative tools that automate controls to ensure compliance.

4. Colleague Enablement: this pillar is focused on colleague development, recognition, training, and enterprise outreach.

What you will be working on:

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Enterprise Architecture team. In this role you will be designing and implementing highly scalable real-time systems following the best practices and using the cutting-edge technology. This role is best suited for experienced engineers with broad skillset who are open, curious and willing to learn.

Qualifications :

What you will Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience

• 6 years of progressive experience demonstrating strong architecture, programming and engineering skills.

• Experience in building real-time, large scale, resilient and highly available cloud native systems

• Ability to understand requirements, convert them into system designs, and lead implementation

• Ability to make decisions, develop and present solution options, conduct technical assessments, articulate pros and cons, and recommend approaches

• Ability to drive improvements, surface new ideas, conduct R&D, experiment and innovate

• Ability to be a though leader to lead, partner, and drive collaboration across many stakeholders

• Ability to lead by example, set clear goals, motivate and foster a results-oriented environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with cloud native architectures, micro-services and distributed systems design patterns

• Hands on experience in building fault tolerant and resilient systems at scale

• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous architectures, including messaging frameworks such as Kafka

• Hands-on experience in building containerized applications on Kubernetes

• Hands-on experience in designing and implementing REST/gRPC/WebSocket APIs

• Firm understanding of API lifecycle, OpenAPI and API patterns is a must

• Firm understanding of network architectures, L3/L4protocols, load balancers, DNS and low latency systems integration

• Firm grasp of data structures, algorithms and patterns with fluency in programming languages like Java, Kotlin, Go

• Experience with databases such as Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS RDS, GCP Cloud SQL and Big Query

• Experience with in-memory computing (Apache Ignite, Memcached)

• Experience with Open Tracing, Open Telemetry and logging using tools like Elastic Search, Splunk, Prometheus and Grafana

• Hands-on experience with system performance testing, tuning and optimization

• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP is a plus

• Experience in migrating on-prem apps to public cloud is a plus

• UI experience using React, Node and JavaScript is a plus

• Open-source community involvement is a plus

• Industry recognized certifications is a plus

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. 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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Job: Technology

Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25004435