Engineer I - job 1 of 8

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.

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.

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.

Do you see the details and the big picture?

As an Engineer supporting Global Security, you will develop solutions that leverage best-in-class vendor products and services to protect the company, customers, and colleagues against harm and losses by providing a full range of protective, investigative, risk assessment, and crisis management solutions.

If you love building solutions in an enterprise environment, engineering interfaces between systems, information security, and configuring the latest technologies, we’ll support you with an open environment and learning culture to grow your career.

You will also have a sharp eye when it comes to Information Security and Platform Health to ensure all our products and services are secure and compliant within the ever-changing security landscape.

As a part of our technical team, you will work to bring ground-breaking and diverse ideas to life that power the digital systems, services, products, and platforms that Amex depends on.

You will do this by:

• Creating seamless integrations between vendor applications and the Amex environment by developing Java REST APIs, secure file transfer, and identity and access management platforms
• Collaborating with product owners, delivery managers, vendors, engineers, and architects to resolve complex technical problems and create solutions for the Global Security portfolio.
• Maintaining the Platform Health of portfolio through vulnerability remediation, CMDB validation and maintenance, threat modeling, and ensuring resiliency

Job Responsibilities:

• Function as an engineer on an Agile team, contributing to the technical delivery through consistent engineering practices (usage of enterprise tools, reusable components, and technical documentation)
• Develop deep understanding of Global Security application logic, middleware, backend technologies, and dependencies within the context of a hybrid environment (SaaS and on-prem)
• Develop technical solutions including design, coding, deployment, monitoring, and support
• Ensure alignment to technology strategy, standards, architecture, and tools/methods
• Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical peers, and product partners to gather requirements and communicate solutions.
• Demonstrate strong leadership in developing and resolving technical issues
• Accountability for platform health including system performance, platform availability, vulnerability remediation, standards alignment, information security, and data management.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience in a professional environment or comparable experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience
• Experience with design and coding in Java
• Working knowledge and practical experience with RDBMS datasets
• Proficiency in API and file based integration development
• Proven ability to solve technical problems and the ability to influence others
• Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods
• Ability to handle multiple priorities and timelines with independent judgement

Preferred Qualifications

• Have worked on complex system integrations with SaaS and on-prem platforms
• Are experienced with Java, 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
• Experience developing on Microsoft PowerPlatform is a plus
• Enjoy automating systems, improving reliability, and challenging processes with the goal of continuous improvement

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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