Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

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.

Our Software Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how 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. So, if you’re interested in a career creating breakthrough software and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further.

We are on a mission to completely transform the issue management function and introduce industry leading capabilities in this space that will create better customer and colleague experiences. In this role, you’ll be leading the technical development for our initiatives with a focus on getting results quickly, building partnerships across product and engineering groups. In addition you will also be building capabilities that improve our detection time and response to operational risk events. You will have the opportunity to work with innovative technologies such as Spring Boot, React.js, Machine Learning models in python and so much more.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Taking your place as the technical lead of an agile team and driving the latest development practices
• Collaborating with Subject Matter Experts to understand and estimate and prioritise the requirements
• Designing solutions that are scalable and can be delivered iteratively to maximise business value
• Writing code and unit tests, reviewing other team members’ code
• Integrate with APIs provided by different teams in American Express
• Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies
• Technical Leadership of a team of engineers
• Improving the development tools and processes to maximise developer productivity and aim towards continuous delivery

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years of strong hands-on experience in Java and experience with backend or middle ware processing
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability
• Strong experience in applications with high throughput, performance and security
• Experience with micro services architectures and service mesh technologies is preferred
• Strong written, verbal communications, presentation skills, leadership, problem solving and analytical skills
• Proven collaboration skills along with the ability to influence without authority
• Hands on experience in the following environments is preferred: Java, REST APIs, Spring Boot Framework, ReactJS, Redis, OpenShift, Elastic Stack, Kafka, Spark, UNIX/Linux
• University Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field required; Advanced Degree preferred
• Financial Industry Domain Knowledge

Preferred Behavioural Skills/Capabilities:

• Performs hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems
• Experience in building scalable distributed systems
• Seeks continuous improvement by considering solutions that make novel use of existing ideas, approaches, technologies or products
• Keep up to date on current research and technology in the industry
• Debug software components, identifies, fixes and verifies remediation of defects
• Proven ability to deliver complex projects iteratively and reliably
• Identifies novel approaches for completing work assignments more effectively or efficiently and works within the "established" system to push for "a better way"
• Excellent written communication skills and ability to document technical content

Enterprise Leadership Behaviours:

• Set The Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective
• Bring Others with You: Build the Best Team, Seek & Provide Coaching Feedback, Make Collaboration Essential
• Do It the Right Way: Communicate Frequently, Candidly & Clearly, Make Decisions Quickly & Effectively, Live the Blue Box Values, Great Leadership Demands Courage

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 work arrangements and schedules with hybrid and virtual options with Amex Flex
• 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

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.

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

To complete your application, please click on the links below. However, if you require any assistance with the completion of this process – or need any reasonable adjustments to be made – then please contact the Recruitment Team on recruitment.support.uk@aexp.com