American Express Hiring for Senior Engineer I at India, 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.

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.

Focus

Leads the design, development, troubleshooting, and debugging work efforts for customer- facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end-user applications.

Member of a product engineering or delivery and integration team reporting to an Engineering Director or Director Product Delivery & Integration. May have people leadership responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

Software Development

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

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

• Lead code reviews and automated testing

• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation

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

• Empower teams to automate deployments in test or production environments

• Empower teams to automatically scale applications based on demand projections

Leadership

• Takes accountability for the success of the team achieving their goals

• Drives the team’s strategy and prioritizes initiatives

• Influence team members by challenging status quo, demonstrating risk taking, and implementing creative ideas

• Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analyzing your work flow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.

• Mentor and guide team members to success within the team

Qualifications

Education and Experience

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

• Wide breath of engineering experience in technologies like Java, J2EE, Spring, Micro Services and more to deliver product capabilities

• Proven experience leading teams of engineers

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

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

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

Knowledge/Skills

• Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods

• Strong engineering hands-on experience on the below technical skills:

• Java, J2EE, vert.x

• Java Memory Management, Garbage Collection, Multithreading, Immutability & concurrency programming

• System design & architecture with Spring Framework

• Familiarity with reactive programming frameworks – Spring Webflux, RXJava

• Experience with RESTful and GraphQL based micro-services

• Relational Databases like Oracle, DB2, Postgres

• NoSql databases like Couchbase, Cassandra, Mongo, S3

• Microservices design patterns

• Event driven programming paradigm using Kakfa, Solace, MQ

• Continuous Integration, and full SDLC Development tools, including Jenkins, Bamboo, GIT, Maven, Junit, SonarCube, Static analysis, Security testing

• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, Azure)

• Experience creating and implementing effective monitoring, tracing and system performance tooling

• Ability to think and analyse both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services

• Able to communicate complex data structures and associated components

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

• Lead reviews of colleagues’ work

• Defines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications provided

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

• Able to assess and interview team members to identify and develop talent

• Making impactful changes by influencing leadership and making timely decisions

• Proven track record to influence technological growth across teams

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

Other Locations: India-Haryana-Gurgaon, India-India-Bangalore

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 21030041