Engineer - Java
Engineer - Java
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$ 85000 - 150000
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Job Description
At American Express our culture is built on a 175year history of innovation shared values and Leadership Behaviors and an unwavering commitment to back our customers communities and colleagues. As part of Team Amex youll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic wellbeing 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.
Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology our culture and our colleagues.
Why American Express
Global Merchant Services Technology is on an exciting journey to redefine the merchant payment experience. Our Merchant platform is a distributed near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient processing transactions from around the world 24x7 365 days a year.
If you like to challenge the status quo and desire to use best in class technology its time to join the GMST organization which strives for continuous innovation. Are you a change agent with a deep engineering passion to build outstanding products for merchants If so we are looking for an enthusiastic driven and forwardthinking Engineering Director to join us on our mission.
How will you make an impact in this role
As an Engineer in GMST you will be building core features and functions of card transaction systems on distributed platform deployed in the cloud. Actively participating in agile teams and the latest development practices writing code and unit tests working with API specs and automation. GMST Engineers use Java Technologies to drive innovation while also finding opportunities for adopting new technologies.
Qualifications
- Degree in computer science computer engineering or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of software development experience in a professional environment working with Java technologies Vertx Spring Spring Boot RESTful micro services Ignite InMemory Computing Spark PostgreSQL Cassandra Kafka Yellowbrick (Apache Ignite is a plus) and RESTful APIs.
- Handson experience with application design software development and automated testing
- Experience with distributed (multitiered) systems algorithms relational or NoSQL databases.
- Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and eloquent solutions.
- Ability to learn and investigate new technology and business domains question status quo and think outside of the box.
- Ability to debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation.
- Experience working in Agile or other rapid application development methods.
- Proficient oral and written communication skills.
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 you with benefits that support your holistic wellbeing 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
- 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.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
