Engineer II

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 lets lead the way together.

Position Required : Big Data Engineer.

We are looking for energetic, high-performing and highly skilled Engineers to help shape our technology and product roadmap. You will be part of the fast-paced, entrepreneurial Enterprise Personalization portfolio focused on delivering the next generation global marketing capabilities. This team is responsible for Global campaign tracking of new accounts acquisition and bounty payments and leverages transformational technologies, such as SQL, Hadoop, Spark, Pyspark, HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, HBase, Kafka & Java.

Focus: Designs, develops, solves problems, debugs, evaluates, modifies, deploys, and documents software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications. Develop maintain large data processing pipeline using Pyspark and SQL

Responsibilities

• Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Develops and tests software, including ongoing refactoring of code, and drives continuous improvement in code structure and quality
• Primary focus is spent writing code, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints, or doing proof of concepts/automation tools. Applies visualization and other techniques to fast track concepts.
• Debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation
• Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments

Minimum Qualifications:

This high energy Engineer must have:

• A Bachelor s degree in computer science, computer engineering, other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
• 3 - 5 years of software development experience. Hands-on expertise with application design, software development, and automated testing.
• Strong programming knowledge in SQL, Pyspark, Data processing
• Hands-on experience in Big Data technologies ( Spark, Hive, MapReduce and Hbase)
• Understanding and experience with UNIX / Shell / Perl / Python scripting
• Database query optimization and indexing
• Web services design and implementation using REST / SOAP and Java is a plus
• Experience collaborating with the business to drive requirements/Agile story analysis.
• Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate

Bonus skills:

• Machine learning/data mining
• Object-oriented design and coding

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
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• 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

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.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.