Engineer - Java - Global Advertising and Brand Management

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At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

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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 U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

Global Advertising and Brand Management Tech team supports the digital products bringing membership entertainment and experiences to life, by providing a platform for activating events, checking in cardmembers and guests, enabling events offers and benefits redemptions and continuous engagement through our AmEx experiences hub and apps.

Key Responsibilities

•Perform technical aspects of software development for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments
•Function as a leader on an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
•Lead code reviews and automated testing
•Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation
•Leads the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
•Takes accountability for the success of the team achieving their goals
•Drives the team’s strategy and prioritizes initiatives
•Influence team members by challenging status quo, demonstrating risk taking, and implementing innovative ideas
•Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analyzing your workflow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.
•Mentor and guide team members to success within the team.

Demonstrate software development skills in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:

•Agile development, application design, software development, and testing
•Expertise with HTML, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript Frameworks React and NodeJS
•Thorough understanding of JSON, web services technologies, and data structure fundamentals, with experience in designing highly scalable solutions.
•Experience with Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, SQL, DB2 UDB
•Hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing
•Strong expertise in API Development and architectural / security standards.
•Experience with continuous integration/deployment (GithubActions, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, XLR).
•Experience with Java applications design and development in an Enterprise setting using Java, J2EE, Vertx, Spring Boot, Relation DBMS
•Expertise in objected oriented analysis & domain driven development and design across a variety of platforms

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required or advanced degree preferred
• 2- 5 years of active engineering
• 1+ years of technical leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience
• Successful design, creation and deployment of one or more enterprise-grade technology assets, including integration of cross-platform solutions in an Agile product environment
• Experience with agile software development methodologies and practices such as Scrum/Kanban, iterations, user stories
• Ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Hands on experience with automation testing and documentation (i.e. automated, functional, and performance)
• Ability to learn and adapt in a rapidly changing environment.
• Adaptable to changes in product requirements, organizational structures and business conditions
• Engaged with the open source community, demonstrated public speaking, etc. Ability to effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on architecture and solution design

Preferred - Knowledge/Skills:

•Collaborates with leadership across multiple teams to define solution requirements and technical implementation Engineering & Architecture
•Demonstrate technical expertise to help team members overcome technical problems
•Solves technical problems outside of day-to-day responsibilities
•Contributes to the success of many teams achieving their goals

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. 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 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.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's 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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