Engineer III

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.

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.

Function Description:

American Express is embarking on an exciting transformation driven by an energetic new team of high performers. This group is nimble and creative with the power to shape our technology and product roadmap. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative payment products and services at a rapid pace, serving our customers seamlessly across physical, digital, mobile, and social media, join our transformation team! You will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering projects platform supporting our global customer base. 

Our Engineers that join our Technologies team will be assigned to one of several exciting teams that are responsible for development and management of business critical platforms. You will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering projects platform supporting our global customer base. You will be challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers. 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.

Responsibilities:

• Drive user story analysis and elaboration, design and develop software applications, and test and build automation tools
• Own all technical aspects of software development (architecture, design and development of systems) for assigned applications
• Perform hands-on software development, API specs, doing proof of concepts, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints
• Drive consistent development practices - tools and common components
• Develop deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
• Work with technical product managers contributing to blueprints, and assisting with annual planning of feature sets
• Identify opportunities for adopting new technology to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges
• Effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on solution design
• Mentor other engineers

Purpose: Create a more powerful and personal customer experience by designing and developing relevant software applications

Minimum Qualifications

Critical Factors to Success (Outcome Driven):

Business Outcomes:

• Understand the business needs and design high quality software applications in timely manner to fulfill those needs
• Identify and adopt new technologies to solve existing business needs and predict future challenges. 

Leadership Outcomes:

• Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role’s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders
• Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings
• Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity
• Lead with a digital mindset and deliver the world’s best customer experiences every day 

Past Experience :

3+ Yrs of past experience across;

• Design and development using Java, J2EE, APIs
• Continuous integration/deployment in an Agile Framework covering the aspect of design development and testing (SDLC)
• Multi-threading programming, Data structures, & web services technology
• DevOps and test driven development

Academic Background:

Bachelor’s Degree in CS or CSE or Equivalent 

Skills/Capabilities:

Functional:

• Strong analytical & strategic thinking skills
• Ability to interpret technical /business objectives and challenges
• Porting/Software Configuration
• Agile Methodologies
• Software development/ testing
• Object oriented analysis and design across multiple platform
• Designing High Availability applications

Preferred:

• Product Engineering Knowledge 
• Knowledge of outbound communication technologies 
• Platform engineering knowledge (e.g Credit/Payments/Merchant services/Ecommerce platforms)

Technical/Platforms:

• Java 8 & above, J2EE, REST APIs