Engineer II

You Lead the Way. We ve Got Your Back.

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.

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.

Organizational Context:

Member of a product engineering or delivery and integration team reporting to a Senior Engineer, Engineering Director, or Director Product Delivery & Integration.

Responsibilities :

• Develops and tests software, including ongoing refactoring of code & drives continuous improvement in code structure & quality.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals, and experience ,
• Primary focus is spent writing code, API specs, conducting code reviews & testing in ongoing sprints or doing proof of concepts/automation tools.
• Functions as a core member of an Agile team driving User story analysis & elaboration, design and development of software applications, testing & builds automation tools.
• Works on a specific platform/product or as part of a dynamic resource pool assigned to projects based on demand and business priority.
• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies.
• Working knowledge of UNIX, Linux, Postman will be advantageous.
• Working knowledge of CICD Tools
• Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback.
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks.
• Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders.
• Embodies growth mentality by looking beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.
• Designs, codes, tests, maintains, and documents applications.
• Takes part in reviews of own work and reviews of colleagues work.
• Defines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications provided.
• Has deep understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)
• Intermediate knowledge of infrastructure technologies and component.
• Provides advanced knowledge of technical and functional principles.
• Effectively leverages General knowledge of the relationships that exist between all relevant functional groups within American Express.
• Should have experience in analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of system applications.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and document technical and functional specifications and analyze software and system processing flows.
• Creative problem solving (Innovative)

Education & Experience :

• Bachelor s degree in engineering or computer Science or equivalent OR master s in computer applications or equivalent
• 4 to 7 years of experience is required. Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods.
• Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate.
• Tech Stack / Programming language for this role Java, Kotlin
• Hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
• Confirmed experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages.
• Participate in code reviews and automated testing.

Technical/Platforms

• Back-end programming languages using Core Java
• Able to understand and use complex data structures and associated components.
• Tech Stack / Programming language for this role Java, Kotlin
• Working knowledge of UNIX, Linux, Postman will be needed.
• Expert on Core JAVA
• REST APIs
• Working Knowledge of CICD.
• Understanding of server-side languages (Jade, EJS, Jinja, etc)
• Source control (Git, SVN, Bitbucket, Svn, Stack overflow, etc. )
• Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Bambo)
• Container Concepts (LXD, Docker)
• Orchestration (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm)

Behavioral

• Teamwork & ability to multi-task
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent technical and analytical aptitude
• Ability to influence and lead others.
• Self-starter with a curiosity and appetite for new technology,
• Results driven.
• Willingness to understand the business and participate in discussions around project requirements.

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