Job Details

Software Engineer III

New York, NY, United States(Hybrid)

Job Description

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

Risk Data Management (RDM) platform is critical for Authorization Modernization Program (AMP) and powers the risk assessment engine with large volumes of data. The platform also includes cloud native applications to support low latency, scalable and modular architecture. This role of Software Engineer will be an integral part of a team that designs and builds large-scale, cloud-native applications and drive us closer to the vision of a robust Risk data platform.

Responsibilities

• Function as a member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development and test practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation.

• Have primary focus on writing quality code, perform unit testing, test automation, quality assurance & automation testing in ongoing sprints.

• Build new micro-services that help manages our rapidly growing data hub.

• Improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability of our data pipelines.

• Work on cross-functional initiatives and collaborate with Engineers across organizations.

• Build CICD pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.

• Build automation for application changes and deployment for faster time to market Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains

• Perform ongoing refactoring of code, quality assurance and testing, applying best practice methodologies and processes.

• Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies & ideas in development / test area.

• Provide continuous support for ongoing application availability

• Collaborate/influence within and across teams to create successes with an innovative mindset and challenge the status quo.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electronics, or other related field (or has equivalent work experience).

• 4-5 years of experience in software development and quality assurance.

• 2+ years of experience in building large scale distributed applications with object-oriented design using backend Java related tech stack.

• Good knowledge of REST API development and database technologies

• Solid understanding of data structures and common algorithms.

• Experience with Spring boot, Netty, gRPC, Junit and Oracle.

• Experience with automated release management using Maven, Git.

• Proficient in identifying and applying software design patterns.

• Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.

• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential.

• Experience with Docker/Openshift based deployment

• Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values (https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/company/who-we-are/) and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our 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 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 out Colleague Benefits Site (https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/colleagues/benefits) .

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 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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Job Info

• Job Identification 26007264

• Job Category Technology

• Posting Date 05/04/2026, 02:59 PM

• Apply Before 05/11/2026, 05:00 AM

• Degree Level Bachelor's Degree

• Job Schedule Full time

• Job Shift Day

• Locations AMEX World Financial Center, New York, NY, 10285, US(Hybrid)

• Salary Range $103750 - $174750 annually + bonus + benefits

• Career Area Technology