At American Express our culture is built on a 175-year 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 well-being 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.
How will you make an impact in this role
The Payments Platform is responsible for clearing more than 500 million transactions a year globally with a value of over 1 trillion dollars (Yep! that is 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 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. We are beginning our journey of transforming the technical landscape in our teams to use a microservice architecture and are looking to bolster our technical talent by acquiring full-stack developers using technologies such as Java Kotlin Spring and React.
Responsibilities:
As a developer you will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of your software from inception to production working on a mixture of green- and brown-field projects learning from and contributing to your peer group.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors or masters degree in computer science computer engineering software engineering or other technical discipline or equivalent work experience.
- Push Payments Expertise.
- 5 years of software development experience with strong knowledge in Java Rest APIs and exposure to alternate JVM languages: Kotlin Clojure.
Technical Skills:
- Python Scala Golang Java JavaScript C C# Kotlin.
- Database: MySQL MongoDB Redis Postgres.
- Search & log: Solr Fruendt Prometheus.
- Container orchestration: Kubernetes GKE Docker.
- CI/CD: Jenkins SonarQube.
- Cloud services: Big Query DataPro Dataflow Cloud SQL Cloud Composer AWS EMR.
- Other: Git Gitflow Jira Bitbucket Gitlab Trello Scrum.
- Frameworks: Quarkus Ktor.
- NoSQL databases: MongoDB Cassandra HBase Couchbase.
- Applied statistics skills: distributions statistical testing regression analysis.
- Creativity & Problem-Solving Skills.
- Adaptability & Flexibility.
- Aptitude for technology; curiosity passion and startup mindset.
- Innovative thinking.
Other Skills (that will be a plus):
- Web technologies An in-depth knowledge and experience working with web technologies such as JavaScript HTML CSS TypeScript C# SASS Stylus Stylus Python and LESS.
- React tools Strong proficiency in Enzyme Webpack Redux and Flux.
- Web frameworks Proven expertise in different frameworks like React Native AngularJS Angular2 VueJS SocketIO Backbone KnockoutJS Svelte and Bootstrap.
- Open-source Libraries Demonstrable experience with jQuery MomentJS RequireJS and Loads.
- Software testing tools A good working knowledge in testing codes using Mocha Jest Unit-tests TDD Karma VCS and Selenium (base).
- Databases A familiarity of working with different databases such as MySQL NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB) PostgreSQL Redis is recommended.
- Code repositories Working experience using GitHub Bitbucket Rhode Code and devZing Subversion.
- Cloud management A strong background in different cloud platforms like Amazon AWS Microsoft Azure OpenStack Apache and Google Cloud Platform.
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being 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
- 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 opportunities
American Express is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible work environment in which all people who apply for positions or who work for or on behalf of Amex are treated with dignity and respect and are provided with equal treatment with respect to employment regardless of that persons age sex sexual orientation gender identity gender expression race colour ancestry ethnic or national origin citizenship religion or creed marital status family status pregnancy disability record of offences social condition or origin political beliefs association or activity or other factors prohibited under applicable Human Rights legislation (the Prohibited Grounds). If you have a disability and need accommodation please speak with the Recruiter for more information.
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:
Senior IC