American Express Hiring for Engineer II – Java, BigData at Karnataka, India Full Time

Description

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible — and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That’s why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.You won’t just shape the world of software.

From building next-generation apps and microservices in Kotlin to using AI to help protect our customers from fraud, you could be doing transformational work that brings our iconic, global brand into the future. As a part of our tech team, we could work together to bring ground-breaking and diverse ideas to life that power the digital systems, services, products and platforms that millions of customers around the world depend on. If you love to work with APIs, contribute to open source, or use the latest technologies, we’ll support you with an open environment and learning culture to grow your career. Focus:

Designs, develops, solves problems, debugs, evaluates, modifies, deploys, and documents software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.

Organizational Context:

Member of a product engineering or delivery and integration team reporting to a Senior Engineer, Engineering Director or Director Product Delivery & Integration.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Software Development

• Beginner level ability in software development, such coding assignments

• Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)

• Participate in code reviews and automated testing

• Debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation

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

• Automate deployments in test or production environments

• Automatically scale applications based on demand projections

Leadership

• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals

• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking

Range of Impact/Influence:

• Accountable for team completing work you’re leading and work you are doing as agreed upon

• Accountable to team for delivery of quality work

You won’t just shape the world of software. You’ll 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 you’re interested in a career creating breakthrough software and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further. You won’t just keep up, you’ll break new ground. There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express. Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing: – Taking your place as a core member of an agile team driving the latest development practices – Writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation – Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies –

Qualifications

Up to 4 years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:

• Must have Java experience

• Web development work experience preferred

• Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing

• Experience with Cassandra, Spark, Java

• Experience with building RESTful APIs

• Expertise in objected oriented analysis and design across a variety of platforms

• Thorough understanding of JSON, Web Service technologies, and data structure fundamentals

• Experience with adaptive and responsive development techniques

• Aptitude for learning and applying programming concepts

• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners

• Experience with a broad range of software languages and payments technologies is a plus.

• Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods

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

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

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

• Confirmed experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred

Knowledge/Skills:

• Design, code, and implement highly scalable and reliable web-based applications.

• Coordinate with other team’s architect, engineers and vendors as necessary.

• Deliver on all phases of development work from initial kick-off, technical setup, application development, and support.

• Identify exciting opportunities for adopting new technologies to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges

• Perform ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts, and delivering continuous improvement

• Work 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

• Manage your own time, and work well both independently and as part of a team

• Quickly generate and update proof of concepts for testing and team feedback

• Embrace emerging standards while promoting best practices

• Able to understand and use complex data structures and associated components

• Designs, codes, tests, maintains, and documents applications

• Takes part in reviews of own work and reviews of colleagues’ work

• ditions based on the requirements and specifications provided

• Has deep understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)

• Intermediate knowledge of infrastructure technologies and components

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

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 22019278