Senior Software Engineer II

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

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.

About Enterprise Architecture:

Enterprise Architecture is an organization within the Chief Technology Office at American Express and it is a key enabler of the company’s technology strategy. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:

1. Architecture as Code: this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.

2. Architecture as Design: this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.

3. Governance: this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards, and developing innovative tools that automate controls to ensure compliance.

4. Colleague Enablement: this pillar is focused on colleague development, recognition, training, and enterprise outreach.

What you will be working on:

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Enterprise Architecture team. In this role you will be designing and implementing highly scalable real-time systems following the best practices and using the cutting-edge technology. This role is best suited for experienced engineers with broad skillset who are open, curious and willing to learn.

Qualifications:

What you will Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of progressive experience demonstrating strong architecture, programming and engineering skills.
• Firm grasp of data structures, algorithms with fluency in programming languages like Java, Kotlin, Go
• Demonstrated ability to lead, partner, and collaborate cross functionally across many engineering organizations
• Experience in building real-time large scale, high volume, distributed data pipelines on top of data buses (Kafka).
• Hands on experience with large scale distributed NoSQL databases like Elasticsearch
• Knowledge and/or experience with containerized environments, Kubernetes, docker.
• Knowledge and/or experience with any of the public cloud platforms like AWS, GCP.
• Experience in implementing and maintained highly scalable micro services in Rest, GRPC
• Experience in working infrastructure layers like service mesh, istio , envoy.
• Appetite for trying new things and building rapid POCs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Observability concepts like Tracing, Metrics, Monitoring, Logging
• Knowledge of Prometheus
• Knowledge of OpenTelemetry / OpenTracing
• Knowledge of observability tools like Jaeger, Kibana, Grafana etc.
• Open-source community involvement

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.