Senior Engineer II

Global Loyalty Benefits is in the middle of an exciting transformation journey, and we need talented engineers who are willing to learn, collaborate, innovate, and adapt to emerging trends and customer demands. Our Loyalty platforms enable many of Amex s most critical customer differentiators including the flagship Membership Rewards program, and we are constantly seeking new ways to offer value to our customers and drive growth for the company.
We are looking for an innovative, experienced, and talented senior software engineer to join our API domain team. You will work closely with our product and development teams to develop new system capabilities at scale and optimize existing capabilities. As part of the Rewards team, you will be responsible for building and maintaining highly available and high-performance rest APIs. You will also be responsible for the core components that make up
our modern microservice platform, driving performance and resiliency, as we scale to take over
our classic applications.

Responsibilities:

• Serving as a core member of an engineering team that designs and develops software applications.
• Owning the designs of pieces of the systems, accounting for reliability and availability including identifying and handling failure modes.
• Writing code and unit tests, working on API specs, automation, and conducting code reviews and testing, and documenting processes
• Identifying exciting opportunities for adopting new technologies to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges.
• Performing ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts, and delivering continuous improvement.
• Working with product managers to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues.

Qualifications:

• 7-10 years of software development experience, and preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline.

7+ years of experience in developing REST APIs using Google s GoLang and/or Java.

Deep understanding of REST principle and deep understanding of Chaos engineering.

Strong experience with any NSQL databases (CouchBase and ETCD is preferable)

Deep understanding of security integrations mTLS, SSO, HashiCorp Vault etc.

Deep understanding of API Gateways and their functions.

Experience with any of the Container and cloud Orchestration technologies Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform etc.

Deep understanding of CI/CD process and tools like GitHub/Actions, Docker, Jenkins,

• Team player and a hands-on engineer.
• Experience mentoring and coaching junior engineers.
• Experience in designing and implementing highly scalable, low latency Go/Java based applications.
• Hands on experience in multi-threading programming.
• Working knowledge of http(s), tcp/ip, and ssh protocols.
• Basic high availability techniques and implementation knowledge.
• Practical knowledge of caching and distributed systems.
• Staying in touch with industry standards and current technologies is expected.
• Hands-on experience in implementing web applications and API services using REST.
• Experience in profiling / performance analysis of applications.
• Commitment to software practices of continuous Integration, automated/repeatable testing, and collaborative work environments.
• Ability to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems.
• Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation.
• Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software.
• Experience working with streaming solutions is highly desirable (preferablyApache Kafka and Kafka Streams).
• Hands on experience in the full stack software development is desirable.

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.