American Express Hiring for Senior Engineer I 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

Our Team Existing team of 30 technical staff. Small, co-located Agile teams of 7-8 people each including Engineers, Agile Champions, Quality Engineers plus Product Owners. We operate in a Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework environment (SAFe). We use tools such

as Slack, Confluence, JIRA, and GitHub to collaborate.

We are currently on a journey of transforming the technical landscape from Cobol / Mainframe using a microservice architecture using technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Spring, and React. Due to this we are looking to bolster our technical talent by acquiring backend and full-stack developers, on both Mainframe and Distributed tech stacks. You will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of your software from inception to production, working on a mixture of green- and brown-field projects, learning from and contributing to your peer group.

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

Qualifications

Qualifications – Preferably a BSc or MS degree in computer science, computer

engineering, or other technical discipline

• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions

• Excellent spoken and written English, clear oral communication skills

• Must be willing and able to express new ideas, concerns and opinions directly to team – Attention to detail and accuracy are essential

• Must be proactive, enthusiastic, flexible, and results driven

• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential

• Software development methodologies TDD, BDD and a solid grasp of Domain Driven Design (DDD)

• You’ve had practical experience of working in an Agile environment

• Solid understanding of modern Java (11 ), including Spring (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Reactive).

• Mainframe / Cobol knowledge required, particularly for modernising practices

• Kotlin advantageous

• Cloud native application development within either private or public clouds

• Kafka or alternative messaging implementations

• Testing frameworks for unit, integration and behaviour

• Experience with frontend technologies such as React would be beneficial

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

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 22019311