Senior Software Engineer I Java Enterprise ACE Platform

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.

The Enterprise Data and AI organization unites the data governance strategy engineering and product teams with those responsible for AI engineering generative AI enablement and automation product and engineering. This group plays a pivotal role in leveraging data as a core driver of innovation and integrating AI capabilities to transform products operations and customer experiences. The EDAI organization also incorporates technology Research & Development and experimentation with emerging capabilities along with engineering support for Amex Digital Labs. This integration ensures that research breakthroughs seamlessly translate into business impact.

We are seeking a Senior Engineer to lead the design and development of a scalable secure and modern framework that streamlines onboarding and supports development teams across multiple business units within Amexscaling to meet future demands. You will architect and implement modern API-driven services application components as per enterprise standards. The role involves advancing ACE Studio Platform and associated components (e.g. Process Engine Case Management Core APIs RPA and Work Management) with a focus on performance availability and maintainability. Youll drive the development of ACE Framework and Platform components self-service tools and real-time analytics to enhance operational efficiency and reduce cost. Ideal candidates will demonstrate deep experience in cloud-native development distributed systems enterprise integration and feature scalability to meet enterprise-wide modernization goals

At the core of Software Engineering:

Every member of our team must be able to demonstrate the following technical functional leadership and business core competencies including:

• Agile Practices
• Product Attitude
• Analytical Thinking
• Business Product Knowledge

Responsibilities:

• Design build and manage enterprise platform and frameworks for Process Management Case Management Work Management Process Mining
• Designing developing and supporting shared technology services used by the enterprise
• Leading a small team of Java & Devops engineers
• Taking your place as a core member of an agile team driving the latest development practices
• Writing code and unit tests working with API specs and automation
• Finding opportunities for adopting new technologies

Qualifications:

• Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science computer engineering or other technical field
• 8 years of hand on software development experience
• Experience in Process Management Case Management Work Management is required.
• Experience in leading and driving overall project is required
• Programming Languages and Frameworks Hands on experience in some or all the following is preferred:
• Java Python Gihub Actions Helm Chart Istio Service MeshEnvoy Docker Kubernetes OpenShift gRPC JSON CouchBase Consul Jenkins Elastic Stack Kafka Spark Git RDBMS like Postgres SQL Springbootmulti-threaded programming Maven Gradle JUnit
• Experience in Platform Engineering is preferred
• Experience in Automations AI / ML driving cost savings is preferred
• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions
• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale platforms with high resiliency availability and reliability.
• Strong experience in applications with high throughput and performance
• Experience with micro services architectures and service mesh technologies is preferred.

Salary Range: $123000.00 to $215250.00 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 job-related factors.

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
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being 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 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

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 in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs colleagues will either work onsite in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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