American Express Hiring for Engineer II – Colleague Experience Technology Services (CETS) – Colleague Benefits at Karnataka, India Full Time

Description

You Lead the Way. We’ve 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, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll 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.

Do you see the details and the big picture?

Extraordinary colleague benefits don’t happen by accident. As an Engineer supporting Colleague Benefits, you will develop solutions that leverage best-in-class vendor products and services that back our colleagues with benefits and programs to support their holistic well-being—physical, financial, and mental health—at each stage of life.

If you love building solutions in an enterprise environment, engineering interfaces between systems, information security, and configuring the latest technologies, we’ll support you with an open environment and learning culture to grow your career.

You will also have a sharp eye when it comes to Information Security and Platform Health to ensure all our products and services are secure and compliant within the ever-changing security landscape.

As a part of our technical team, you will work to bring ground-breaking and diverse ideas to life that power the digital systems, services, products, and platforms that our colleagues depend on.

You will do this by:

• Developing seamless integrations between vendor products and the Amex environment by utilizing enterprise APIs, file transfer, and Identity and Access platforms

• Collaborating with product owners, delivery managers, vendors, engineers, architects, and key stakeholders to resolve complex technical problems and create solutions for the Colleague Benefits portfolio.

• Maintaining the Platform Health of 100 vendor products through vulnerability remediation, CMDB validation and maintenance, threat modeling, and ensuring enterprise resiliency

Job Responsibilities:

• Function as an engineer on an Agile team, contributing to the technical delivery through consistent engineering practices (usage of enterprise tools, reusable components, and technical documentation)

• Develop deep understanding of Colleague Benefits application logic, middleware, backend technologies, and dependencies within the context of a SaaS/PaaS/Cloud technology ecosystem.

• Perform technical aspects of software development, configuration, and remediation for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments.

• Develop, support, configure, and maintain strategic applications for Colleague Benefits portfolio of applications

• Provide L2/L3 production support for Colleague Benefits applications.

• Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.

• Automate deployments in test and production environments and leverage enterprise CI/CD

• Ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods with staff architects to execute product roadmaps

• Effectively communicate to technical and non-technical peers, and business partners to gather requirements and communicate solutions.

• Demonstrate strong leadership in resolving technical issues to deliver on time with quality.

• Accountability for platform health of product portfolio, including system performance, platform availability, vulnerabilities and exceptions, standards alignment, scheduled task health, information security, and data management.

Minimum Qualifications:

5 years of software development experience in a professional environment or comparable experience such as:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required

• Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods

• Experience with design and coding in Java and across one or more platforms and additional languages as appropriate

• UI experience using React is good to have

• Backend experience including relational databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL is good to have

• Hands-on expertise with application design, software development, and automated testing

• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, APIs, and relational databases

• Experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages

• System Integration experience in a SaaS/PaaS/Cloud environment

• Ability to handle multiple priorities and deadlines with independent judgement.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Strong organization and prioritization skills

• Proven ability to solve technical problems and the ability to influence key stakeholders.

Qualifications

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

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

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

Job: Technology

Primary Location: India-Karnataka-Bengaluru Urban

Other Locations: India-Haryana-Gurgaon

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24011231