Senior Engineer II

3 days ago


Burgess Hill, United Kingdom AMEX Full time

You Lead the Way. Weve 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, youll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey thats unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, youll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impactevery colleague has the opportunity to share in the companys success. Together, well win as a team, striving to uphold our and powerful backing promise to provide the worlds best customer experience every day. And well 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.

American Express is embarking on an exciting transformation driven by an energetic new team of high performers. This group is nimble and creative with the power to shape our technology and product roadmap. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative payment products and services at a rapid pace, serving our customers seamlessly across physical, digital, mobile, and social media, join our transformation team You will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering world-class cardmember experiences. We are looking for an innovative, experienced, and talented senior software engineer who will work closely with business unit and development team to develop new system capabilities as defined within the technical/ functional specifications

How will you make an impact in this role?

Responsible for leading projects, designing system solutions, developing custom applications, and modifying existing applications to meet distinct and changing business requirements. Handle coding, debugging, and documentation. Provide post implementation and ongoing production support Develop and design software applications, translating user needs into system architecture. Assess and validate application performance and integration of component systems and provide process flow diagrams. Test the engineering resilience of software and automation tools. You will be challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers. Software Engineers who join our Loyalty Technology team will be assigned to one of several exciting teams that are developing a new, nimble, and modern loyalty platform which will support the key element of connecting with our customers where they are and how they choose to interact with American Express. Be part of an enthusiastic, high performing technology team developing solutions to drive engagement and loyalty within our existing cardmember base and attract new customers to the Amex brand. The position will also play a critical role partnering with other development teams, testing and quality, and production support, to meet implementation dates and allow smooth transition throughout the development life-cycle. The successful candidate will be focused on building and executing against a strategy and roadmap focused on moving from monolithic, tightly coupled, batch-based legacy platforms to a loosely coupled, event-driven, microservices-based architecture to meet our long-term business goals.

Minimum Qualifications:

Position requires a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or experience followed by 5+ years of experience in a modern development stack with some significant Golang experience. Experience in application design, software development, and testing, preferably in an Agile environment. Experience working with Git on small to medium sized teams. Experience with open-source frameworks is a plus especially maintaining or contributing to open source projects Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, Couchbase, or Cassandra is a plus. Experience designing and developing REST APIs for high volume clients. Experience with continuous integration tools (Jenkins, GHA) a plus. Experience with automated build and test frameworks a plus. A proven hunger to learn new technologies and translate them into working software. Experience with container and container orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes, a plus. Experience with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.), a plus. Strong ability to develop unique, outside the box ideas Strong analytical, problem-solving/quantitative skills Willing to take risks, experiment, and share fresh perspectives Aptitude for learning and applying programming concepts. Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners.

Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge of payments industry Experience with coding skills across a variety of distributed technologies Experience with a broad range of software languages and payments technologies

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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