Senior Engineer Ii

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.
The PaymentsPlatformis responsible forclearing more than 500 million transactions a year globally, with a value of over 1 trillion dollars (Yep!that isnot a typo, trillion with a T). This is a mission critical endeavor, with plenty of interesting engineering challenges in a space that is ripe for innovation. Open banking, ISO 20022, real-time/instant payments, and modern cross-border schemes are revolutionizing clearing and settlement. Our Platform is becoming the gateway to existing and emerging global payment rails; and we are using an innovative integration stackto"speak" the many schemes and formats. Beyond the transactional aspect, our differentiating value is contextual. A rich data backbone and deep integration with enterprise data sources allow us to offer powerful omnichannelAPIsand extension points used by developers that build customer facing experiences such as: P2P payments, loans, bill-pay, commercial cross border payments,APautomation, and many more.
We are beginning our journey of transforming the technical landscape in our teams to use a microservice architecture and are looking to bolster our technical talent byacquiringfull-stack developers, using technologies such as Java,Kotlin,Spring, and React.
Responsibilities:
As a developer, you willbe responsible forend-to-end delivery of your software frominceptionto production, working on a mixture of green- and brown-field projects, learningfrom,and contributing to your peer group.

Qualifications:
Bachelor's or master'sdegree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
Push Payments Expertise
5+ years of software development experience with strong knowledge in Java, RestAPIs,and exposure to alternate JVMlanguages:Kotlin, Clojure

Technical Skills:
Python, Scala, Node.js, Golang, Java, JavaScript, C++,C#,Kotlin
Database: MySQL, MongoDB, Redis,Postgres
Search & log:Solr,Fruendt, Prometheus
Container orchestration: Kubernetes,GKE, Docker
CI/CD: Jenkins, SonarQube
Cloud services:Big Query,DataPro, Dataflow, Cloud SQL, Cloud Composer, AWS EMR
Other: Git,Gitflow, Jira, Bitbucket, Gitlab, Trello, Scrum
Frameworks:Quarkus,Ktor
NoSQL databases: MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase
Applied statistics skills: distributions, statistical testing, regressionanalysis
Creativity & Problem-Solving Skills
Adaptability & Flexibility
Aptitude for technology; curiosity,passion,and startup mindset
Innovative thinking

Other Skills (that will be a plus): 
Web technologies – An in-depth knowledge and experience working with web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, C#, SASS, Stylus, Stylus, Python, and LESS.
React tools – Strongproficiencyin Enzyme, Webpack, Redux, and Flux.
Web frameworks – Provenexpertisein different frameworks like React Native, AngularJS, Angular2,VueJS,SocketIO, Backbone,KnockoutJS, Svelte, and Bootstrap.
Open-source Libraries – Demonstrable experience withjQuery,MomentJS, html5sql.js,RequireJS, and Loads.
Software testing tools – A good working knowledge in testing codes using Mocha, Jest, Unit-tests, TDD, Karma,VCS, and Selenium (base).
Databases – Afamiliarity ofworking with different databases such as MySQL,NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB), PostgreSQL, Redis is recommended.
Code repositories – Working experience using GitHub, Bitbucket,Rhode Code, anddevZingSubversion
Cloud management – A strong background in different cloud platforms like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack Apache, and Google Cloud Platform

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.