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.
As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. Amex offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex. How will you make an impact in this role? American Express is looking for a hands-on Engineer II in the Risk Decision Technology (RDT) organization for the Authorization Modernization Program (AMP) team. The RDT team is responsible for cross-domain, configurable platforms to enable best-in-class risk management and American Express growth with strong governance. The AMP team is embarking on a journey to modernize and build next-gen authorization platform. This role of Engineer will be an integral part of a team that designs and builds large-scale, high-transaction, cloud-native applications and drive us closer to the vision of a modernized authorizations platform.
As an Engineer, you will:
Function as a member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development and test practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation.
Have primary focus (80%+) on writing quality code, perform unit testing and test automation in ongoing sprints.
Build new micro-services and web services that help run fraud risk assessment for customer transactions.
Improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability of our data pipelines.
Work on multi-functional initiatives and collaborate with Engineers across organizations.
Build CICD pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
Build automation for application changes and deployment for faster time to market.
Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains.
Perform ongoing refactoring of code, quality assurance and testing, applying best-in-class methodologies and processes.
Find opportunities to adopt innovative technologies & ideas in development / test area.
Provide continuous support for ongoing application availability.
Collaborate/influence within and across teams to create successes with an innovative attitude and challenge the status quo. 

Minimum Qualifications
Hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other related field (or has equivalent work
experience).
2+ years of confirmed experience in software development and quality assurance. 
1 year of demonstrated ability in Java development and building large scale distributed applications. 
1 year of experience with relational and NoSQL database technologies like Oracle, Cassandra, and Postgres. 
Experience with automated release management using Gradle, Git, Jenkins. 
Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities. 
Willingness to learn new technologies and use them to their optimal potential. 
Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels across functions, from both technical and practical views.

Preferred Qualifications
Building APIs using techniques and frameworks like REST, RPC (gRPC and similar), SpringBoot
Experience or exposure to Java reactive programming
Hands-on experience on writing and understanding medium to complex SQL queries and query optimization
Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions

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.