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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.
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.
How will you make an impact in this role?
Our Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day. Today, innovative ideas, insight and new perspectives are at the core of how we create a more powerful, personal and fulfilling experience for all our customers. So, if you’re interested in a career creating breakthrough software and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further.
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:
Designing and building a new application to support the infrastructure build and application migrations to our new data center. You will be utilizing the latest technology tools and practice, you may be writing code and test cases, working with API specs and automation to maintain the resiliency, performance and availability of a group of applications
Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies
Removing toil and continue to drive efficiencies and optimization
Creating dashboards leveraging splunk, Grafana and kibana
Reviews current issues and works with Engineering team to get code fixed and deployed.
Designs, codes, tests, maintains, and documents applications
Build apps that meet compliance and audit requirements that are required for the financial services industry.
Participates in reviews of own work and reviews of colleagues' work
Defines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications provided
Minimum Qualifications
Recognizes opportunities to adopt innovative technologies to enable business capabilities
Keeps up to date on current research and technology in the industry
Recognizes the importance of collaboration to achieve objectives
Clearly communicates ideas and concepts to others
Leads work effectively and acts on own initiative without being prompted
Provides feedback to team members in code reviews
Is curious, drives creative change & continuous improvements
Explores new automation techniques to refine the agility, speed and quality of engineering initiatives and efforts
Balances feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives
Ability to prioritize work and competing demands
Ability to bring other along with you
Knowledge of frameworks and tools in the respective language enabling effective and efficient development
Understanding and interest in architectural patterns for highly available, scalable, low-latency, asynchronous systems (for example, well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms)
Knowledge of the advantages and challenges associated with the implementation of micro-services architecture
Incident management system knowledge (service now)
Basic UNIX knowledge and any programming language (preferably java, go lang or UI stack)
Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods
Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate
Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks.
Able to understand and use complex data structures and associated components
Basic knowledge of infrastructure technologies and components
Ability to speak clearly and with intent
Ability to navigate and lead the team through high-priority requests; Works well under high-pressure timelines
Resourceful, has grit, and a positive “can do” attitude; acts without being told what to do
Desired Skills
Required Qualifications
Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 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:
hackajob is partnering with American Express to fill this position. Create a profile to be automatically considered for this role—and others that match your experience.