Job Description

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, you'll 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 American Express payment network processes and authorizes millions of card transactions daily, this network is the critical backbone for all American Express payment transactions and is built upon real time, low latency & highly available components.These customer facing capabilities integrate with the payment network to power the American Express brand to enable key spending channels like mobile payments and e-commerce. We design, develop & deliver secure services for both the core payment platforms & customer facing services.

How will you make an impact in this role?

As a Software Engineer, you'll help to build world class software through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation). You'll contribute to the design, development, troubleshooting, debugging, evaluation, modification, deployment, and documentation of software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.

Minimum Qualifications:

Building software to expected quality and standards using distributed enterprise frameworks. Participating in code, test & other quality reviews Debugging basic software components and identify code defects for remediation. Enabling the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments Automating deployments in test and production environments Scaling applications based on demand projections.

Preferred Qualifications:

Proven years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience with the following: Hands on Java application design, software development and automated testing (Java 11 and higher) Intermediate knowledge of basic infrastructure technologies and components Familiarity with application containers based on spring, Vert.X or equivalent Familiarity with Cloud services including DevOps concepts and CI/CD tools. Experience with Event-driven/Micro-services architecture for high-availability/distributed systems. Experience using Spring Framework, Junit, GitHub, Microservices, Splunk and API's Experience with Test driven development and unit testing frameworks. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git) and build toolings Maven or Gradle.

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

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.