Description

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.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology of #TeamAmex.

The Digital Banking - Payments Platform, is responsible for clearing more than 500 million transactions a year globally, with a value of over 1 trillion dollars (Yep! that’s not a typo, trillion with a T). This is a mission critical endeavor, with plenty of interesting engineering challenges in a space that is ripe for innovation. Open banking, ISO 20022, real-time/instant-payments, and modern cross-border schemes are revolutionizing clearing and settlement. Our Platform is becoming the gateway to existing and emerging global payment rails; and we are using an innovative integration stack in order to “speak” the many schemes and formats. Beyond the transactional aspect, our differentiating value is contextual. A rich data backbone and deep integration with enterprise data sources allow us to offer powerful omnichannel APIs and extension points used by developers that build customer facing experiences such as: P2P payments, loans, bill-pay, commercial cross border payments, AP automation, and many more.

Focus:

Leads the design, development, testing, troubleshooting, debugging, deployment, documentation, reliability, and availability of software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end-user tools and applications.

Key Responsibilities:

Software Development

• Perform technical aspects of software development

• Function as a leader on a software engineering team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)

• Lead code reviews and automated testing

• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation

• Leads the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.

• Automate deployments in test or production environments

• Automatically scale applications based on demand projections

• Adhere to security and regulatory best practices

Leadership

• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals

• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking

• Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analyzing your work flow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.

• Mentor and guide success within the team

Scope of Impact/Influence

• Leads and mentors teams of engineers through ongoing development efforts

• Ensures engineers enforce team standards

• Ensures Engineering team delivers a quality product that meets the customers’ needs

• Accountable for accurate completion and quality of all documentation and work produced by engineering team

Knowledge/Skills

• Able to communicate complex data structures and associated components

• Designs, codes, tests, maintains, and documents application components

• Lead reviews of colleagues' work

• Defines test conditions based on the functional and non-functional requirements provided

• Has deep understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)

• Monitors system performance and availability and improves software quality through root cause analysis

• Deep understanding of infrastructure technologies and components

Education & Experience

5 years of software development experience in a professional environment such as:Wide breath of engineering experience

• Proven experience leading teams of engineers

• Hands-on expertise with application design, software development, and automated testing

• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred

High-performing Behaviors

• Finds opportunities to embrace innovative technologies to enable business capabilities

• Keeps up-to-date on current research and technology in the industry

• Empowers teams to automate deployments into production environments

• Empowers teams to dedicatedly scale applications based on demand projections

• Takes accountability for the success of the team achieving their goals

• Drives the team’s strategy and prioritizes initiatives

• Mentor and guide all team members to success within the team

Qualifications

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 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.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries

• Bonus incentives

• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

• 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

• 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .

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.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Job: Technology

Primary Location: US-Florida-Sunrise

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24017316