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American Express Senior Engineer – Java – Enterprise Real-Time Processing in Helena, Montana
Description
“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. 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.
In building leading edge real-time processing platforms, you will be transforming our iconic, global brand. As a part of our technology team, you will collaborate to bring ground-breaking and diverse ideas to life that power the digital systems, services, products, and platforms upon which millions of customers around the world depend. If you love to build real-time solutions that empower customers and use the latest technologies, we’ll support you with an open environment and learning culture to grow your career.
Focus:
Architect, design, develop, solve problems, debug, evaluate, modify, deploy, and document a real-time / stream processing platform and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.
Organizational Context:
A member of a product engineering team reporting to an Engineering Director.
How will you make an impact in this role?
Software Development
Design and build a real-time streaming and complex event processing platform
Build highly performant APIs
Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent design and development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
Conduct code reviews and automated testing
Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation
Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across development, test, integration, and production environments
Automate deployments
Automatically scale applications based upon demand
Leadership
Demonstrate self-reliance to achieve team goals
Influence and lead peers with creative changes and improvements by challenging the status quo and demonstrating calculated risk taking
Own and drive designs and solutions even in the presence of ambiguity
Mentor other engineers
Present architecture, designs, and solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences
In order to work in or visit any of our offices in the United States, we require colleagues to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Qualifications
At least 6 years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:
Expertise in Java and / or Scala including the latest and advanced features
Experience designing both macro and micro platform / system architecture
Proficiency building solutions with streaming technologies such as Cloud Dataflow or Flink
Experience building highly performant and efficient web APIs preferably using non-blocking frameworks such as Spring WebFlux
Ability to setup Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines using Git and Jenkins
Ability to containerize applications using Docker
Experience designing, building, and deploying processing as cloud native solutions
Expertise in implementing highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable solutions
Ability to participate in and lead the prevention, diagnosis, and resolution of system outages as an authority in the underlying solution
Proficiency with data structure libraries
Experience with Agile or other rapid application development methods
Strong focus on writing automated tests for your own code
Ability to perform benchmarking and optimization
Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred
High Performance Behaviors:
Recognizes opportunities to adopt innovative technologies to enable business capabilities
Keeps up to date on current research and technology in the industry
Recognizes the importance of collaboration to achieve objectives
Clearly communicates ideas and concepts to others
Finds opportunities within projects and acts on own initiative without being prompted, including making appropriate decisions
Provides feedback to team members in design and code reviews
Drives creative changes & continuous improvements
Mentors and guides team members to success within the team
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in the English language
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.
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Job: Technology
Primary Location: United States
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 22000635