Staff Engineer
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You Lead the Way. 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 company values 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.
Join Team Amex and lets lead the way together.
The Global Network Services Technology team deliver secure performant and highly available Digital Network Payment solutions which support technology transformation modernization innovative products and services. This is a fastpaced exciting space where technology boundaries are being pushed with critical payment journeys being at the forefront.
As a Staff Engineer you will be a handson engineer building highly available and scalable distributed system on the cloud that supports the companys longterm strategy and vision. Your primary responsibility is design and develop our next generation distributed transaction platform supporting Amex card transactions. Staff Engineers in American Express is an individual contributor role and is at the same level as a Director of Engineering.
- An expert in one or more of the following coding languages Java Kotlin or Golang.
- Strong design experience to convert high level architecture concepts to engineering specifications for OLTP based platforms.
- Experience in design and implementation of microservicebased solutions on Cloud (OnPrem AWS or GCP) Container based technologies (Kubernetes Docker & VMs).
- Experience of designing high performing high resilient solutions based on distributed architecture incorporating event based workflows orchestration and knowledge of cellbased architecture.
- Strong database experience on SQLbased products (Postgres Oracle etc) and NoSQL (HBase Cassandra Redis).
- Experience with CICD pipelines (ie: Jenkins/CircleCI/XLR/Git/GitHub Actions).
- Experience of event streaming (Apache Spark Kafka Message Queues)
- Experience of contributing to OpenSource Projects.
- Experience design and implementing application and network security architectures.
- Applying Solid Engineering Principles (OOP/Functional Paradigms TDD DDD SoC MicroServices Caching Strategies).
Following leadership behaviours are essential even though this role is of an individual contributor the expectation is as below:
- Influence team members with creative changes decision making and drive technical direction via challenging the status quo and manage risk taking.
- Stakeholder management and being able to report into multiple lines.
- Being self organised and able to context switch effectively when delivery prioritises change.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills ability to proactively engage with other engineers and teams to ensure designs and solutions are delivered per deadline.
- Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions.
- Growth mindset to be curious and passionate about technologies to engage on challenges in designing world class global solutions.
- A passion for coaching and engaging engineers of all levels bringing their talent skills and experience up to drive the organization forward.
Domain Experience:
- Working 5 years in the Fintech and Banking IT domain knowledge of Payment Networks is an advantage.
How will you make an impact in this role
25 of your time spent on coding. - Work with other Staff Architects Engineering Leads and Product Owners to define solution requirements.
- Drive both highlevel and detailed technical designs and conduct design reviews as needed.
- Define the longterm technical strategy of the platform to support product roadmaps.
- Provide technical mentorship to other software engineers at all levels
- Implement new highly scalable platform components.
- Improve and maintain existing components of the core platform.
- Actively participate in team and companywide architecture and engineering discussions and forums.
- Employ technical expertise to help team members overcome technical problems
- Enforce to release/project schedule and sprint achievements.
- Responsible for health and quality of the code across the portfolio including leadership over SCM functional testing and CI/CD tool integration.
Minimum Qualifications:
Significant active engineering experience in a complex environment and/or comparable experience such as:
- Successful engineering and deployment of enterprisegrade technology assets in an Agile product environment
- Bachelors Degree in computer science computer science engineering or related field required; advanced degree preferred
- Handson coding experience in the platforms primary technology stack (Java or Golang Spring boot Vertx Couchbase Postgres Redis Kafka Splunk Envoy)
- Experience with development tools: Jenkins XL Release
- Expertise in building faulttolerant scalable solutions that are performed at a global enterprise scale
- Full understanding of Service Oriented Architecture design principles and implementation patterns
- Ability to construct enterprisegrade APIs using stateoftheart techniques and best practices (REST JSON XML etc.
- Proficient in crossplatform integration
- Advanced engineering skill with wideranging experience; able to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways
- SDLC Methodologies and Practices
Experience in the card payment network domain is a HUGE plus!
We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic wellbeing. That means we prioritize their physical financial and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
- Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- Support for financialwellbeing 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 onsite 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
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check subject to applicable laws and regulations.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
