Java Engineer

Description

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American Express is looking for a hands-on Software Engineer in the Risk Decision Technologies (RDT) organization for the Data Engineering team. The RDT team is responsible for cross-domain, configurable platforms to enable best-in-class risk management and American Express growth with strong governance. The Data Engineering team is embarking on a journey to build Next-gen data platform to support critical Risk Business functions like payments authorization, new account fulfilment, credit collections and underwriting risk.

Risk Data Management (RDM) platform powers the risk assessment engine with large scale Bigdata, and highly available transactional data stores and also support data publishing capabilities. The platform also includes cloud native applications to support low latency, scalable and modular architecture.

As a Software Engineer, you will:

• 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 (80% ) on writing quality code, perform unit testing, test automation, quality assurance & automation testing in ongoing sprints.

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

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

• Work on multi-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-in-class methodologies and processes.

• Find opportunities to embrace 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:

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other related field (or has equivalent work experience).

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

• 3 years of experience in building large scale distributed applications with object-oriented design using java related stack.

• Expertise in programming knowledge in Java - Solid understanding of data structures and common algorithms

• Proficient in identifying and applying software design patterns.

• Experience with database technologies like Oracle, Cassandra, etc.

• Experience with web services and API development on enterprise platforms.

• Experience with automated release management using Maven, Salt, Git, Jenkins.

• Good knowledge of REST API development will be a plus.

• 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 is a plus.

Qualifications

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.

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Job: Technology

Primary Location: United States

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 22025340

Salary : $85,000 - $150,000