Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer, Web Technology (individual contributor position) to ensure optimal design/architecture of the web components that power our digital experiences which are crucial for our customers as we strive to be essential to their everyday lives. Continuing to drive innovation and delivery in digital channels is a key part of the strategy for continuing to delight customers.

Our Software Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day. Today, innovative ideas, insight and new perspectives are at the core of how we create a more powerful, personal, and fulfilling experience for all our customers. If you’re interested in a career creating breakthrough software and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further.

• Performs hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems.
• Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies and participate in Proof of concepts and rapid prototypes
• Work with Staff Engineer to define solution requirements and technical implementation approach.
• Drive both high-level and detailed technical designs and conduct design reviews as needed.
• Actively participate in team and company-wide architecture and engineering discussions and forums.
• Analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software for use in local, networked, cloud-based or Internet-related environments.
• Responsible for health and quality of the code across the portfolio, including leadership over SCM, functional testing, AI and CI/CD tool integration.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to refine and shape product requirements, ensuring clarity and readiness for engineering.
• Mentor and guide feature teams, fostering effective collaboration within the team, across guild teams, and with other cross-functional project teams.
  

• Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline.
• 10+ years of software development experience.
• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential.
  Skilled in the delivery methodology used by the team (Agile, Scrum, AgileXP, Test-Driven Development, Waterfall, etc.).
• Active engineering experience in a complex environment with ability to deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems.
• Expertise in building fault-tolerant, scalable solutions that are performed at a global enterprise scale.
• 6+ Years of experience with Java, Reactive Programming using RxJava, Vert.x.
• 10+ Expertise with integrating RESTful APIs and microservices
• Strong proponent of AI Tools and automation to drive process and work efficiencies across critical domain and business APIs
• Experience working with database technologies including NoSQL DBs.
• Experience with Kotlin programming language.
• Experience with Web technologies like React, JavaScript Frameworks, HTML5, CSS3 is a plus.
• Past working experiences with other languages are a plus.

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