Software Engineer II

hackajob is collaborating with American Express to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.

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.

In this role, you will

• Perform hands-on software development, includes designing, writing code, API specs, doing proof of concepts, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints
• Drive consistent development practices - Tools and common components
• Develop deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features
• Maintain code integrity and organization
• Understand and implement security and data protection
• Work with technical product managers contributing to feature planning and more
• Identify exciting opportunities for adopting new technology to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Proficient with Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security and Spring JPA
• Hands on with building RESTful APIs and integrating web services
• Familiar with Swagger/OpenAI
• Node, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Relation DBMSs -DB2, NoSQL - Couchbase, S3, PostgreSQL
• Microservices design patterns
• Event driven programming paradigm using Kafka, solace, MQs clusters.
• Source control (Git, Bitbucket etc.). Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Maven, Gra, XLR, Mockito, JMeter)
• Orchestration Concepts (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm)
• Knowledge of graphQL, microdose, vertx, typescript will be an additional advantage.
• Familiar with Agile/Scrum development methodology
  
  

Business Outcomes

Critical Factors to Success (Outcome Driven):

• Drive cross functional development on entire technology stack for a company to provide consistent application user experience
• Ensure ease of switching between front end and back-end development which results in saving time and money as complexities and problems can be solved by the same person
• Enhance design structure leading to speed to market: Coding and the design of the site s/he can have a view from above and prevent slip ups that come up during development.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiar with Google Cloud storage like GCS, Big Query
• AngularJS, React and Node.js
  
  

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.