Senior Software Engineer II (Java Backend)

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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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

In the role of Senior Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for taking on the role of an individual contributor and team lead for the GSM applications which is critical in the Amex environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Functioning as a senior member of an Agile team helping drive consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation).
• Analyzing business features and user stories and refining with the Product Owner to appropriately support design and build activities.
• Working with Product Owners to prioritize features and manage a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues.
• Performing all technical development for assigned applications including architecture, design, developing prototypes, writing new code and APIs, and performing unit and assembly testing of developed software also as needed.
• Hand-on architecture working closely with technical architects and architecture governance technical team for solution development and design reviews.
• Supporting integration and performance tests and providing demo of results to technical and product partners
• Performing peer code reviews, making deliberate short- and long-term design decisions and keeping constant focus on clearing technical debt items in the backlog.
• Enabling the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
• Works closely with product owners on blueprints and annual planning of feature sets that impact multiple platforms and products.
• Manages and mentors’ teams of junior and senior engineers through ongoing sprints.
• Communicating to stakeholders and business partners on the solution and the implementation aspects at the technical and/or functional level appropriate for the situation
• Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by demonstrating risk taking.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years of development experience with Java (minimum Java 8)
• Demonstrated experience in application design, software development, and testing.
• Ability to balance priorities and break down complex problems to manageable chunks that can be delivered incrementally.
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Micro-services, Relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages and proven ability to understand and use complex data structures and associated components.
• Deep understanding of multithreading concepts with experience of developing robust and scalable distributed server-side applications and algorithms
• Analytical skills and knack of looking for non-obvious solutions.
• Should have worked on RESTful API design and implementation.
• Implementation or working experience of Continuous Integration and Continues Delivery using tools and automation capabilities such as JUnit, Mocking, TestNG, Jenkins, Git, Stash and Jira
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field.
• Having hands-on knowledge on Global Supplier Management applications.
  
  

Benefits

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.