Engineer-JAVA

Job description

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.

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. We are seeking innovative Software Engineers who guide technology teams to ensure the quality delivery of applications and infrastructure components. The role will collaborate closely with business partners, Project Managers, Technical Architects and Leadership as a subject matter expert, to ensure completeness and efficiency of solutions while ensuring adherence to technical standards. 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 highly modular, loosely coupled, event-driven, microservices-based platforms to meet our long term business goals.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

Desired profile

Responsibilities:
This role will focus on building solutions and components that span a newly expanded American Express software landscape. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing core system design, evaluating and proving platform components, and delivering working prototypes and frameworks for delivery teams to build upon. These components are required to have a high performance service interface (REST API) capable of scaling to extremely high transaction rates. This will require developing highly scalable components in a distributed environment. Our goal is to use open source frameworks where applicable to build an industry leading, API-enabled system.
·  Serving as a core member of an engineering team that designs and develops software applications
·  Writing code and unit tests, working on API specs, automation, and conducting code reviews and testing
·  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:
·  Position requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field followed by 2-4 years of progressively responsible experience with object oriented development (JAVA preferred).
·  Demonstrated experience in object oriented application design, software development, and testing, preferably in an Agile environment.
·  Experience with open source frameworks, such as DropWizard, SpringBoot, Camel, Guice, AngularJS, Bootstrap, and Node.js.
·  Experience with various relational and NoSQL databases, such as Oracle, MongoDB, and Apache Cassandra a plus.
·  Experience designing and developing REST APIs for high volume clients.
·  Experience with continuous integration tools (Jenkins) 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 technology, such as Docker, a plus.
·  Experience with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence, etc.), a plus.
·  Experience with Git a plus
·  Aptitude for learning and applying programming concepts
·  Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners

Preferred Additional:
·  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 Exposure to integrations with Business Rules Management Systems is desired (Drools, Blaze)

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.


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