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American Express Senior Engineer - Java, Rest API, Spring Boot, GCP - Customer Marketing in Phoenix, Arizona

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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 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.

American Express has embarked on an exciting transformation driven by an energetic new team of high performers. This is a great opportunity to join the Customer Marketing organization within American Express Technologies and become a driver of this exciting journey.

We’re looking for a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer with a history of building applications on Google Cloud Platform using Spanner and Big Query, along with Java and Spring boot applications. Someone who fosters a culture of high quality and innovation using new capabilities to drive the release of resilient, robust, and performant solutions, to help us enhance a global platform that will form the backbone of the American Express Marketing ecosystem.

Joining the Marketing Technology team, this role will be focused on the delivery of new Targeting and Eligibility Platform, provide innovative solutions to satisfy the needs of our business. As an agile team we work closely with our business partners to understand what they require, and we strive to continuously improve as a team.

We pride ourselves on a culture of kindness and positivity, and a continuous focus on supporting colleague development to help you achieve your career goals. We lead with integrity, and we emphasize work/life balance for all of our teammates. We work a hybrid schedule where we are in the office one day per week, and virtual the other days (though you’re welcome to come to the office as much as you’d like)

How will you make an impact in this role?

There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express. Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing:

  • As a part of our team, you will be developing innovative, high quality, and robust Marketing Targeting Platform

  • Develop software in our technology stack which is constantly evolving but currently includes Java, Spring boot, Spark, GCP

  • Work with Business partners and stakeholders to understand functional requirements, architecture dependencies, and business capability roadmaps

  • Create technical solution designs to meet business requirements

  • Taking your place as a core member of an Agile team driving the latest development practices

  • Identify and drive reengineering opportunities, and opportunities for adopting new technologies and methods

  • Suggest and recommend solution architecture to resolve business problems

  • Perform peer code review and participate in technical discussions with the team on the best solutions possible

  • Provide mentoring to other Engineers on the team

Minimum Qualifications

  • 5 years of hands-on Software Development experience in Java, Rest API, and Spring boot

  • 2 years of experience in Google Cloud Platform, Google Big Query, Google Big Table, Cloud Composer, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Google Cloud Spanner, Google Cloud Dataflow, IAM Policies, Spark, Google Cloud Storage

  • BS or MS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical field or equivalent work experience

  • Ability to implement scalable, hard-working, secure, highly available solutions.

  • In depth knowledge of HTTP, HTTP Proxies, web servers and API Gateways like APIGEE.

  • Strong Object-Oriented Programming skills and design patterns

  • Good understanding of CI/CD processes leveraging Jenkins, SBT, XLR and Maven, GitHub Actions

  • Good knowledge and experience with configuration management tools like GitHub

  • Strong expertise in SQL and database theory, and data analytics

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving aptitude

  • Good communication skills and teamwork

  • Understanding of various SDLC methodologies, particularly Agile

  • Willingness to learn new technologies and leverage them to their optimal potential

Preferred Qualifications

  • Big Data Components/Frameworks such as Hadoop (MapR), Spark, Yarn

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-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24008586

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