Senior Engineer Ii

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Weve 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, youll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey thats unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.At American Express, youll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impactevery colleague has the opportunity to share in the companys success.
Together, well win as a team, striving to uphold our and powerful backing promise to provide the worlds best customer experience every day.
And well do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.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.
Amex 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 on #TeamAmex.We are on the journey to develop a best in class, modern communications and storage solution for the enterprise, to support the digital first strategy, improve our cost efficiency and ensure better self-service for all our consumers as part of our technology roadmap.
With billions servicing communications being sent and stored annually, we are continuing to invest in innovation, modernization and leading-edge technologies is critically important, especially as we move through our platform and product journey.We are looking for a front end or full stack Senior Engineer II to deliver world-class software solutions supporting our platform vision.
This includes using leading-edge modern technology stack, fostering engineering culture, innovation using new capabilities, designing and building new ways to enhance and expose our capabilities via APIs, cultivating continual improvement in system quality, performance, and robust coding frameworks.Translate user needs into system requirements, partner with Solution Architect and Senior Engineer to ensure design meets technology standards and uses appropriate design patterns.
Develop software applications to high coding standards, ensure code is testable throughout and meets the resilience of test automation tools.
Measure and optimize application code performance and integration of component systems.
Support deployment of changes into production.
Ensure adherence to CI/CD toolsetsDesigns, develops, solves problems, debugs, evaluates, modifies, deploys, and documents software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.Member of a product engineering team within the Digital Data AI & ML TECH, reporting to an Engineering Director.Are you up for the challenge?Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline8+ years of software development experienceFunction as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutionsHands-on expertise with application designWillingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potentialExperience with design and coding across one or more platformsParticipate in code reviews and automated testingDebug software components and identify code defects for remediationEnable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environmentsAutomate deployments in test or production environmentsAt the core of Software Engineering, the candidate must be able to demonstrate some of the following core competencies: Technical experience Java - Java 8+ experience building enterprise applications with proven design patternsSpring - Experience/knowledge with the Spring framework, specifically Spring Boot and RESTful APIsVertX Experience/knowledge with VertXDatabases Experience/knowledge of RMDBMS databases.NoSQL - Experience/knowledge with NoSQL databases such as Couchbase is an advantage.React - Experience/knowledge for front-end (UI) development - desirable CI/CD - Build pipelines for continue integration and delivery: Git, Jenkins, etc.Testing Frameworks - Experience with Testing Frameworks for backend/front-end and backend automation testingPaaS - Experience/knowledge of AWSHigh Performance Behaviors:Recognizes opportunities to adopt innovative technologies to enable business capabilitiesKeeps up to date on current research and technology in the industryRecognizes the importance of collaboration to achieve objectivesClearly communicates ideas and concepts to othersFinds opportunities within projects and acts on own initiative without being prompted, including making appropriate decisions as vitalProvides feedback to team members in code reviewsDrive creative changes & continuous improvementsMentors and guides junior team members to success within the teamKnowledge/Skills:Able to understand and use complex data structures and associated componentsDesigns, codes, tests, maintains, and documents applicationsSupport reviews of colleagues' workDefines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications providedHas experience of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)Experience of infrastructure technologies and componentsTechnology Skills You'll Use Every Day:Adaptive CommunicationAgile PracticesIndustry and Company KnowledgeChange ManagementTechnical AcumenTechnology Industry TrendsGame Changers:FlexibilityCollaboration & PartnershipContinuous ImprovementCourageCuriosityResourcefulnessServant LeadershipTenacityFunctionalRequirements analysisData ManagementRelease and DeploymentUser Experience Evaluation and AnalysisLeadershipEveryone is a leader mind setAnalytical ThinkingDecision makingCoaching and mentoringInfluencing and negotiationBusinessProblem SolvingBusiness product knowledgeWe 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 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 opportunitiesOffer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.