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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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Software Engineering:

• Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large scale enterprise applications

• Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments

• Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform

• Establish and accepts responsibility for engineering practices across teams for example the code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective

• Empower teams to automate demand driven scalable application deployments in test or production environments

• Apply specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives to identify complex and or broad problems and issues and formulate recommendations

• Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices

Leadership

• People Leader to software engineering team, including B30 colleagues and contractors, dotted line leadership to B35 colleagues in team(s)

• Promote, empower, and practice servant-leadership

• Drives the team’s technical improvements and roadmap

• Takes accountability for the technical maturity of the team

• Mentor and guide team members to success; identify strengths and areas for growth in direct reports and guides them to grow in their careers while being more productive on the team

• Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics

• Working with Engineering Director to hire top talent for the team.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience

• 5 years’ experience with design and development in an Enterprise setting using Java, J2EE

• Experience with leading employees including having one on one sessions to provide regular feedback and mentoring

• Lead reviews of colleagues' work

• Recent hands-on experience with the primary technology stacks within platform portfolio (relevant frameworks, languages, etc.)

• Full understanding of Service Oriented Architecture design principles, execution patterns and performance optimization

• Ability to clearly communicate and collaborate well with technical and non-technical partners

• Foundation in design, data structures and algorithms, and strong analytical and debugging skills with customer-facing products experience.

• Channel-specific architecture skills as required by the platform, such as web, mobile, voice or interactive media

• Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases

• Demonstrated experience in Java application design, software development, and testing, preferably in an Agile environment

• Expertise with SpringBoot, JavaScript, SQL and NodeJS

• REST API development experience

• Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing

• Ability to effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on solution design

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 United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

Job: Technology

Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25018758