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.  American Express 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.

Do you have the ability to put together unique cutting-edge customer facing solutions that increase business value and customer engagement by leveraging sound design principles and that are data & security driven? Do you have a unique combination of deep technical knowledge, business acumen and strong interpersonal skills to help influence and drive results across a diverse organization.

We are looking for a great software developer who understands the fundamentals of web, is good in Java and has fairly good understanding of security. Your primary focus will be on working with the architects and engineers in the organization to build & uplift web applications to use latest backend server technologies with increased focused on security on platforms such as Java, Spring Boot in developing applications on Google Cloud Platform.

 How will you make an impact in this role?

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

Serving as a core member of an agile team that drives user story analysis and elaboration, designs and develops responsive web applications using the best engineering practices Performing hands-on software development, typically spending most of time actually writing code and unit tests, doing proof of concepts, conducting code reviews, and testing in ongoing sprints Performing ongoing refactoring of code, and delivering continuous improvement Developing deep understanding of integrations with other systems and platforms within the supported domains Bring a culture of innovation, ideas, and continuous improvement Challenging status quo, demonstrate risk taking, and implement creative ideas Manage your own time, and work well both independently and as part of a team. Work closely with product managers, back-end and other front-end engineers to implement versatile solutions to tricky web development problems Embrace emerging standards while promoting best practices and consistent framework usage. Drive automation and ensure automated test scripts are completed for new features in partnership with QA Engineers. Perform all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications, including developing prototypes, writing new code and creating API's. Design and build integration components and interfaces in collaboration with Senior Engineers, Architects and Infrastructure Engineers as necessary. Demonstrate a passion for continuous learning and willingness to adopt new technologies

Minimum Qualifications

BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline 3+ years’ experience working in Java and able to demonstrate good Java knowledge Able to demonstrate good web fundamentals and HTTP protocol knowledge Good attitude, communication, willingness to learn and collaborate 3+ yrs development experience in developing Java applications in an enterprise setting 2+  yrs experience developing Java applications using Spring, Spring Boot 2+ years Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) / Behavior Driven Development (BDD) practices, unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing, GUI testing, web service testing, and browser compatibility testing, including frameworks such as Selenium, WebDriverIO, Cucumber, JUnit, Mockito Experience with Cryptography and EMV technologies will be an added advantage. Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery environment 2+ yrs working in an Agile or SAFe development environment Solid Understanding of distributed systems Proven experience building REST APIs including security using Spring and role based access control

 

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

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.