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.
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.
How will you make an impact in this role?
Software Development
1. Advanced ability in software development
2. Function as member of an agile team by leading and contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
3. Participate in code reviews and automated testing
4. Debug complex software components and identify code defects for remediation
5. Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
6. Automate deployments in test or production environments
7. Automatically scale applications based on demand projections
Leadership
8. Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals
9. Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking
10. Support and mentor less experienced engineers.
Range of Impact/Influence:
11. Accountable for team completing work youre leading and work you are doing as agreed upon
12. Accountable to team for delivery of quality work
You wont just shape the world of software. Youll shape the world of life, work and play. 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. So if youre interested in a career creating breakthrough software and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further. You wont just keep up, youll break new ground.
There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express. Heres just some of what youll be doing:
13. Taking your place as a core member of an agile team driving the latest development practices
14. Writing code and unit tests in Java, working with API specs and automation
15. Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies
16. Working with a team of engineers that delivers knowledge management solutions to businesses worldwide
Minimum Qualifications:
17. Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline
18. Proven experience within software development
19. Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions
20. Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
At the core of Software Engineering, every member of our team must be able to demonstrate the following technical, functional, leadership and business core competencies, including:
21. Agile Practices
22. Porting/Software Configuration
23. Programming Languages and Frameworks
24. Business Analysis
25. Analytical Thinking
26. Business Product Knowledge
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:
27. Competitive base salaries
28. Bonus incentives
29. Support for financial-well-being and retirement
30. Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
31. Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
32. Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
33. Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
34. Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
35. 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.