Software Engineer - Java & BRMS

Job description

Since its inception in 1850, American Express (NYSE: AXP) has remained an industry leader by embracing innovation. Starting in the express shipping business, the company has gone through organizational change, entering into the traveler's cheque, travel, publishing, and mostly notably, credit card industries. Today American Express is in the midst of a digital evolution and is rapidly becoming a leader in the emerging payments space. 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! Software Engineers that 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 supporting our customers where they are and how they choose to interact with American Express.

You will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering world-class cardmember experiences across multiple channels, including native mobile, web, social integration, Java services, and APIs. You will be challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proofs of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers.

· Performing hands-on software development and testing.
· Serving as a core member of an agile engineering team that designs and develops software applications Typically spends 75+% of time writing code, API specs, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints
· 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
· Working with technical 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
· May be assigned to a specific platform/product permanently or be part of a dynamic resource pool that gets assigned to projects as they come up
· Uses industry standard automation tools to create regression test scripts and enables continuous development

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

Desired profile

· 3+ years of software engineering experience
· Demonstrated experience with Agile or other rapid application development methods
· Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design and coding skills across a variety of platforms: JAVA, HTML, DB2, XML, Oracle, MQ Series, Data Power
· Thorough understanding of XML, JSON, web services technologies (SOAP, REST), and data structure fundamentals
· Demonstrated experience with continuous integration frameworks (Jenkins)
· Familiarity with Hibernate ORM, Spring Batch and Spring Data desired
· Experience with multiple Apache tools; Cassandra, Camel, Maven, etc.
· Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and both relational & NoSQL databases Understanding of integration with Business Rules management Systems (Pega, Blaze, Drools, etc.)
· Ability to effectively communicate across third parties, technical, and business product managers on solution design
· Experience with web services and Open API development as well as SOA concepts
· A proven hunger to learn new technologies and translate them into working software
· Effectively communicates with internal and external business partners
· Expertise in objected oriented analysis and design across a variety of platforms
· Ability to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems
· Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software
· Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience, is preferred.
· Experience with a broad range of software languages and payments technologies is a plus
· Experience with Drools/Red Hat BRMS a plus
· Experience with payments technology and industry is a plus
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