Staff Engineer

4 weeks ago


Burgess Hill, United Kingdom American Express Full time
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 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. Amex 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.

This Staff Engineer role will be focused on transformation of the technology landscape supporting Business to Business Payments capabilities in the Global Commercial Services Technology team.

How will you make an impact in this role?
  • Provide technical leadership to deliver software solutions that exceed customer and stakeholder expectations.
  • You will constantly pursue and learn industry leading/innovative solutions. Build high awareness of open-source technologies and communities that enable high volume low latency systems.
  • Lead a culture of innovation and experimentation, support full software development lifecycle that incorporates the best of technology approaches and delivery methodologies.
  • Engage with developers in day to day activities and helping in review of design, coding and the SDLC tasks. Stepping into code where and if needed and be a hands-on leader.
  • Ensure on time product releases that are of high quality, enabling the core vision of next generation card processing systems compliant with regulatory requirements.
  • Promote a fun and high engagement culture, with a results orientated focus. Hire, mentor, motivate and retain the best talent.
  • Collaborate with peer technology and product teams across different locations.
  • Leading a team in an environment which includes modern web frameworks and complex transaction processing systems leveraging a broad set of technology stacks (Node.js, React, Cassandra, Kafka, Java, Mainframes, Oracle, DB2, REDIS etc.).
  • Communicate to senior leaders with regard to strategy direction and changes.
  • Build fault-tolerant, scalable solutions that are performed at a global enterprise scale.
  • Build REST APIs, microservices and event driven architectures.
Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, Information Technology.
  • Overall 8+ years of experience in the following:
o Developing and delivering leading-edge software solutions, building teams from scratch, and mentoring engineers on the team.

o Experience in two or more of the following technologies - Java, Go, Vert.x, React, Envoy, gRPC, ProtoBuf, JSON,

o Experience with applications with high throughput and low latency needs.

o Experience building highly available and low latency distributed systems. Experience building systems as service-oriented architecture and/or micro-services architecture.

o Experience in CI/CD tools like Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Sonar.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • In depth knowledge and understanding of tokenization, virtual payments, commercial technology landscape, expense management and reconciliation capabilities.
  • Strong knowledge on databases including NoSQL DBs like Couchbase and Cassandra.
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to create and deliver effective presentations to leadership across the organization.
  • Proven ability to influence and drive delivery across a geographical distributed organization.
  • Experience attracting, hiring and retaining top engineering talent.
  • Out of the box thinking.
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
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
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