Backend Java Engineer - GAR

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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. 

Responsibilities but not limited to

• Communicating to stakeholders and business partners on the solution and the implementation aspects at the technical and/or functional level appropriate for the situation
• Ability to work closely with technical architects and architecture governance technical team for solution development and design reviews.
• Functions as a member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development practices – tools and common components
• Works closely with product owners on blueprints and annual planning of feature sets that impact multiple platforms and products
• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
• This “rebel with a cause” looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities
• Contribute to design, development, troubleshooting, debugging, evaluating, modifying, deploying, and document software and systems.
• Develop software including writing code and ongoing refactoring of code & drives continuous improvement in code structure & quality.
• Primary focus is spent writing code, API specs, conducting code reviews & testing in ongoing sprints or doing proof of concepts/automation tools.
• Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
• Functions as a core member of an Agile team driving User story analysis & elaboration, design and development of software applications, testing & builds automation tools.
• Implement the best software practices that produce maintainable code, including usability patterns, code style conformity, integration and unit testing. 
• Design, code, test, maintain, and document applications.
• Working knowledge of CICD Tools
• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.
• Demonstrate ability to develop and document technical and functional specifications and analyze software and system processing flows.
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5  years of development experience.
• Hands-on expertise with Java or Python, Spark and any scripting languages.
• Experience with highly distributed, scalable, concurrent and low latency systems working with one or more of the following database technologies: MySQL, Postgres SQL, NoSQL DB, Elastic Search.
• Experience with data visualization and business intelligence tools like Tableau, or other programs.
• Knowledge of automated build / continuous delivery, experience of Maven, Jenkins and other JVM languages.
• Requirements gathering, analysis, design and development of integration solutions and APIs.
• Software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience.
• Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods.
• Ability to create and manage big data pipeline using kafka, and RTF.
• Hands-on experience with application design, software development and automated testing Exposure to distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
• Current knowledge of Credit card industry desirable.
• Manages seamlessly across time zones, cultures, and band levels.
• Communicates effectively with Technical, Operational, and Business stakeholders.
• Must be willing and able to express new ideas, concerns and opinions directly to wider team in team meetings via teleconference.
• Attention to detail and accuracy are essential.
• Must be proactive, enthusiastic, flexible, and results driven.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field required.
• Extensive experience with big data technologies (Hadoop, Hive, Event Engine, etc.) tools for large scale data processing, data transformation and machine learning pipelines.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Automated Test tools such as Jenkins, Artifactory, Git.
• Experience working in an Agile and Test-Driven Development environment.
• Demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor, strong attention to detail, team oriented, energetic, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style.

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 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 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 
• 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.

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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Salary : $85,000 - $150,000