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American Express
Engineer I (Amex ID: 25008731)
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Description
ID: ID: 25008731
At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
American Express is looking for an entrepreneurial and creative full stack Web Developer to join the Global Pay engineering team. Global Pay is responsible for the development of a cloud-based, highly available platform enabling international money transfers for global commercial clients.
Working in the Global Pay team, you will be responsible for developing and delivering the core functionalities for our international money transfer system, building the a platform targeting millions of American Express users and supporting the roll out of new features, components, and functions.
How will you make an impact in this role?
An Engineer interested in developing a great product, an individual contributor that will pursue technical excellence and engage with the best engineering practices.
Role and responsibilities
Day to day, you will:
Build scalable services using Kotlin
Deliver an excellent UX with a React based stack
Write high quality, functional code
Integrate with our partners to process financial transactions
Be an active participant in feature refinement and solution design
Minimum qualifications
A proactive mind-set and the drive to deliver
Be keen to learn new technologies and be articulate with technical concepts
To be conversant with RESTful web service design and messaging technologies (e.g Kafka, Active MQ)
An understanding of relational databases
Experience with the JVM (e.g. Java, Kotlin, Scala, etc.)
Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as React/Redux, HTML5, CSS3
Exposure to GitHub Actions
Preferred qualifications
Are experienced with multiple JVM languages, functional programming, asynchronous programming, the concepts of clean code
Have expertise with Spring, React, relational and non-relational databases, cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines
Understand product development concepts, e.g. minimum viable product, design sprints, prototyping, A/B testing, etc.
Enjoy automating systems, improving reliability, and challenging processes with the goal of continuous improvement
Have worked with complex integrations involving payment/financial technologies
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones’ physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
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
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
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Culture overview
Our culture is built on a 175-year history of
courageous leadership, innovation, and an
unwavering commitment to back our customers,
communities, and each other. With shared values
and leadership behaviors, we’ve continued to set
the standard for what it means to provide the best
experience every day with premium products and
services that help our customers achieve their
aspirations. As part of Team Amex, you’ll build
strong relationships and collaborate
with colleagues around the world in an
environment where everyone is respected and
valued, and where you can reach your potential.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work
makes an impact, and together, you will help us
define the future of American Express.
Employee benefits
Bonus Scheme
Childcare Vouchers
Cycle To Work
Flexible Hours
Flexible Working
Laptop
Life Insurance
Pension
Private Healthcare
Season Ticket Loan
Wellbeing Programme
Office vibe
City Centre
Hackathons
Open Plan
Social Events
Location
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Leadership
Ravi Radhakrishnan
Chief Information Officer
Tech overview
Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.
Make an Impact
Our tech teams power large scale platforms and products, enabling over 100 million global consumers and businesses.
Grow Your Career
Progress as either a people leader or technical expert, while increasing your domain expertise within a high-performing team.
Expand Your Skills
Use the latest languages, technologies, and delivery practices, and demonstrate your skills at internal hackathons, open-source days, and developer events.
Global Tech Career Pathways
Explore roles across 5x career pathways: Engineering & Architecture; Digital Product & Design; Service Delivery; Information Security; Product Delivery & Integration.
Find your place in Tech on #TeamAmex.
Meet our Tech Colleagues, leading through innovation.
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Will - “Being able to move into different jobs around the company keeps things varied and exciting.”
Dev - “As a new colleague, I was astonished at how quickly I was able to acclimate… I’ve achieved a lot in my first year.”
Eve - “I thrive on building products and architecture-as-code that cement the data culture we have here.”
Meghan - “I’ve built well-rounded skills and have been able to identify the type of engineering that suits me most..”
Mohan - “Amex has a stellar technology organization; I get opportunities to gain exposure across various stacks.”
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Engineering principles
Agile Process
Change Management
Code Reviews
Communication and collaboration
Continuous delivery
Continuous Development
Knowledge sharing
Mentoring
Monitoring and logging
Open source contributor
Pair programming
Scrum
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