Backend Software Engineer - Digital Banking, Payments
Backend Software Engineer - Digital Banking, Payments
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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.
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 Bill Payment platform provides a great opportunity to solve complex challenges and to build novel technology to power the next generation of Amex financial products. We are a team of entrepreneurial disruptors with a great FinTech Engineering culture at the forefront of innovation in the industry. We are building amazing GraphQL and APIs intelligent payment routing decision engines an ISO20022 framework AI/ML driven data pipelines and fluid integrators with Global Payment Infrastructure and the banking system.
Our team is responsible for mission critical customer journeys including Pay your Amex Bill Plan your Payment and Get a Loan. Our goal is to decouple our assets such as our ACH engine and bank validation and make it easy for others in the company to build world class customer experiences.
We are looking for Engineers that are openminded willing to learn and are passionate about building great software. As we decide if an Engineer is a fit for our Team we will not focus solely on experience or languages used but the ability to think out of the box and approach problems with a clever mentality. We are influenced by The TwelveFactor App principles and we have picked modern ergonomic languages that improve productivity and readability i.e. modern JVM: Quarkus/Micronaut/Ktor with Kotlin and lightweight Go command tools. Architecture is event driven microservices leveraging Kafka Workflow Orchestration and polyglotpersistence layers including Postgres Cassandra and Oracle.
Responsibilities:
- Build software as part of a nimble agile Team where you have every opportunity to make an impact on the bottom line and contribute to the architecture.
- Ensure our infrastructure is safely extensible scalable reliable and meets SLAs for both external and internal users.
- Create a brand for our platform composed of amazing APIs Developer Portal Tutorials and SDKs.
- Ensure our solutions are testable intuitive and easy to maintain.
- Use innovative tools for remote collaboration and developer happiness i.e. IntelliJ CodeWithMe and Tuple
- Participate in design and code reviews for key components and cross Enterprise initiatives.
Qualifications:
- Experience in backend reactive programming languages: Java 8 and/or Kotlin.
- Proven track record developing lightweight reactive microservices: Vert.x Quarkus Micronaut or Spring Boot.
- Deep understanding of event driven architecture and messaging: Kafka webhooks asynchronous API design.
- Experience with PostgreSQL Oracle or equivalent relational databases.
- Have experience working as an individual contributor as part of a multifunctional agile team. Experience in FinTech is a massive plus.
- Have proven experience in supporting mission critical platforms with high levels of availability and service continuity.
- Have solid experience in cloudbased architecture and distributed systems.
- Have exceptional written and communication skills and can express dissenting opinions constructively.
- Selfdirected and able to work in an ambiguous environment through the innovation process.
- Care about learning and being open minded about switching approaches and experimenting.
- Value collaboration and put the Team interests always above self.
Salary Range: $85000.00 to $150000.00 annually bonus benefits
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately in determining your pay well consider your location experience and other jobrelated factors.
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
- 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
- Free financial coaching and financial wellbeing 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 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
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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants including those with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws including but not limited to the California Fair Chance Act the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.
We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive professionally and personally. Thats 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 inperson culture. Depending on role and business needs colleagues will either work onsite in a hybrid model (combination of inoffice and virtual days) or fully virtually.
US Job Seekers Click to view the Know Your Rights poster. If the link does not work you may access the poster by copying and pasting the following URL in a new browser window: eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
Employment Type
Full-Time
