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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.

The Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.

How will you make an impact in this role?

There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express. Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing:

  • Working on a critical enterprise platform that enables global authentication and authorization across all of American Express.
  • Taking your place as a core member of an agile team driving the latest development practices.
  • Writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation.
  • Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies.
  • Work in a scrum team of software engineers to build next generation of identity and access management platform for Amex customers.


Minimum Qualifications:

  • You have at least 3-5 years of experience working in a scrum team using agile methodologies for software delivery.
  • You have excellent technical and communication skills to clearly articulate and present solutions to complex problems.
  • You have at least 6+ years of hands-on software development experience using Java or similar programming language.
  • Having strong hands-on knowledge of Object-oriented programming like Java/J2EE on frameworks like spring boot.
  • You are an expert in building, testing, maintaining and debugging highly scalable and highly available production systems.
  • BS degree or higher in computer science or related discipline


Preferred Qualifications - Experience in the following areas is a plus:

  • Building APIs using techniques like REST, RPC (gRPC and similar), Functions (AWS Lambda)
  • Public internet and intranet Authentication and Authorization Models using JWT, OAuth and OpenID
  • Golang development
  • Project experience with highly available and strongly consistent databases: traditional or key-value stores.
  • Relational and non-relational databases Oracle, DB2, Postgres, Casandra and mongo.
  • Proficient with Splunk and Linux/Unix technologies.

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

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 
  • 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
  • Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
  • Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
  • 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
  • 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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.

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Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

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American Express is a multinational financial services corporation and global leader in providing personal, small business, and corporate credit cards.

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DATE POSTED
June 17, 2025

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