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Description

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.

We’re looking for a Senior Programmer to join our dynamic engineering team and help design and build next-generation applications supporting data center infrastructure, automation, and large-scale application migrations. You’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to critical initiatives, and play a key role in our digital transformation journey.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Application Development: Design, build, and enhance new applications to support infrastructure buildouts and application migrations to next-generation data centers.

• Code & Automation: Write clean, efficient, and testable code using modern languages and frameworks. Develop automated test cases and use APIs and CI/CD pipelines to maintain resilience, performance, and availability.

• Technology Innovation: Identify and evaluate new technologies, tools, and frameworks that can enhance performance, scalability, and developer productivity.

• Optimization & Toil Reduction: Continuously improve systems and processes to eliminate manual work, increase efficiency, and reduce operational overhead.

• Monitoring & Insights: Build monitoring and analytics dashboards using Splunk, Grafana, and Kibana to provide visibility into application and system health.

• Issue Resolution: Review incidents and partner with engineering teams to identify root causes, fix code, and deploy production-ready solutions quickly and safely.

• Compliance & Quality: Develop applications that meet rigorous compliance, security, and audit requirements within a financial services environment.

• Collaboration & Reviews: Participate in peer reviews, provide constructive feedback, and ensure adherence to best practices and design standards.

• Testing & Validation: Define and execute test conditions based on specifications, ensuring code quality, scalability, and maintainability.

What You Bring

• A passion for building scalable, high-performance systems using modern technologies.

• Strong experience in backend programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, C#, or Scala.

• Experience with Node.js and CSS frameworks such as Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, or similar.

• Deep understanding of microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and asynchronous, low-latency system design.

• Familiarity with DevOps concepts, CI/CD pipelines, and version control systems like Git.

• Experience with incident management systems (ServiceNow preferred).

• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux environments and at least one modern programming language (Java, Go, or a UI framework).

• Hands-on experience with distributed systems, relational databases, and algorithms.

• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform is highly desirable.

• Familiarity with Agile development practices and rapid release cycles.

• Basic understanding of infrastructure components (networking, compute, and storage) and their role in application performance.

Key Attributes

• Technically curious and eager to explore emerging technologies.

• Strong collaborator who values teamwork and open communication.

• Balances innovation with reliability and well-defined service level objectives (SLOs).

• Thrives under pressure and can lead teams through critical requests.

• Resourceful, self-driven, and solution-oriented — with a proactive mindset.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical ideas into clear business context

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline (advanced degree preferred).

• 6 years of relevant industry experience in software development, infrastructure programming, or systems engineering.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $123,000.00 to $215,250.00 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.

Job: Technologies

Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25022470