Overview
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.
As part of the Enterprise CRM Solutions (eCRMs) organization, here’s just some of what you’ll be doing:
The Salesforce platform is part of the larger Enterprise Platforms Centre of Excellence where product, engineering, and delivery colleagues have been brought together to drive a step function change in speed to market and further unlock customer value across several the company’s core platforms. The global Salesforce platform team sits at the heart of American Express’ global marketing, sales, and account development functions for all lines of business. This platform is a critical enabler of American Express’ customer centricity and growth objectives.
As a Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining services which connects Amex Salesforce platform with various enterprise capabilities. Your role will be pivotal in enabling data and integration capabilities both in real-time and batch mode to ensure that our Sales and Marketing teams have access to accurate and timely data for decision making.
Job Responsibilities:
Serving as a core member of an Engineering team, that designs and develop software applications
Effectively interpreting technical and business objectives and challenges and articulating sound solutions.
Provide technical expertise in driving projects from inception to closure
Work independently as well as collaborate effectively with cross functional teams on case-by-case basis.
Work with Product team, other data engineers and DevOps to deliver features on time.
Be a change agent with hands-on ability to build POC products and set the best practices.
Perform code reviews and help the team to produce quality code.
Work in a geographically distributed team setup.
Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes.
Fine tune the existing application with new ideas and optimization opportunities to reduce the latency.
Scoping/Effort Estimates: contribute to solution scoping and effort sizing with a cross-functional team.
Research: stay informed on technology trends.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or Computer Science or equivalent OR master’s in computer applications or equivalent
4+ years of experience in service/framework development using GCP Cloud Big query/Hadoop/HIVE/SQL/Shell Scripting/Spark/Python experience preferred.
Technical Skills:
Demonstrated hands on experience in application design, software development, and automated testing,
4+ years of GCP, Big Data applications
4+ years of experience with BIG Query/Big Table/Airflow/composer/DataProc/Hadoop/HIVE/SQL/Shell Scripting/Spark/Python/Scala/GCP Cloud/Tableau/Nifi(or any ETL)
4+ Agile development experience
Expertise on Bigdata technologies like Map-Reduce, Hive, Spark
Exposure in reactive/ asynchronous programming.
Exposure in building cloud native applications.
Exposure to Google cloud platform
Expertise with logging and monitoring tools Dynatrace, ELF
Proficient in writing MemSQL and Postgres SQL
Expertise in objected oriented analysis, design and design patterns
Experience with continuous integration/deployment(Jenkins, XLR ,GITHUB actions etc.)
Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners
Strong written, verbal communications, presentation skills, problem solving and analytical skills
Willingness to understand the business and participate in discussions around project requirements
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
Support for financial-well-being and retirement
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
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
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.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
