Senior Java Engineer

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to –

• Owns all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications
• Performs hands-on architecture, design, and development of Personalization (ML driven) systems supporting multiple business units across Customer & Prospect marketing.
• Functions as Senior engineer of an agile team and helps drive consistent development practices
• Typically spends 80% of time writing code and testing, and remainder of time collaborating with peers, team members through ongoing product/platform releases
• Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other Amex systems and platforms within the supported domains
• Writes code and unit tests, works on API specs, automation, and conducts code reviews and testing
• Performs ongoing refactoring of code, uses visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts, and deliver continuous improvement - Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
• Provides continuous support for ongoing application availability
• Works closely with product owners on blueprints and annual planning of feature sets that impact multiple platforms and products
• Works with product owners to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues. 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor or Masters’ Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years of software development experience with hands-on experience in large scale applications
• Strong programming knowledge in Java/Python
• Solid understanding of data structures, Algorithms & Design Patters
• Familiar with Big Data concepts
• Prior experience with integrating with Third party systems
• Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods
• Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate
• Hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing
• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges, and eloquent solutions.
• Ability to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems.
• Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation.
• High energy demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software and should have a knack to be updated on latest technology trends in the industry.
• Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages.
• Knack to guide/mentor other junior team members in both technology and domain.
• Strong analytical ability
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent team-player with ability to work with global teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on any Hadoop distribution, such as Mapr, Cloudera, Hortonworks and have at least coded in Hive, Pig, Java M/R, Spark for 2 years or more, Spark Streaming, Kafka, Amazon S3, H-Base, Bash, Mongo DB, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL Informatica, SFTP Oracle, MySQL
• Experience with UNIX / Shell / Perl / Python scripting
• Understanding of different Algorithms & Machine Learning techniques (Neural Network, Deep Learning, Supervised & Unsupervised, Regression, Classification) and their application in batch/real-time.
• Experience in Cloud technologies (Dockerization, etc)