Job Description

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible —and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. 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.

American Express is embarking on an exciting transformation driven by an energetic new team of high performers. This group is nimble and creative with the power to shape our technology and product roadmap. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative payment products and services at a rapid pace, serving our customers seamlessly across physical, digital, mobile, and social media, join our transformation team! You will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering projects platform supporting our global customer base. Our Engineers that join our Technologies team will be assigned to one of several exciting teams that are responsible for development and management of business critical platforms. You will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering projects platform supporting our global customer base. You will be challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers. Our Software Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day. Today, innovative ideas, insight and new perspectives are at the core of how we create a more powerful, personal and fulfilling experience for all our customers.

Responsibilities:

Your primary responsibilities will be to develop technical solutions to enhance the Authorization Payment Cryptography platfom, with a focus on building automation for highly scalable cloud services delivery.

• Collaborate with the rest of the API engineering team, Architecture team, quality engineering tam and product management to build scalable high performant quality API and Orchestration solutions.

• Research and apply recent technology and libraries that enable lean product development.

• Implement API/Middleware solutions which integrates with NSQL, platforms, partners systems

• Protect APIs with security integrations like – mTLS, HashiCorp Vault etc.

• Implement the best software practices that produce maintainable code, including usability patterns, code style conformity, integration, unit testing, and code review.

• Preferably a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

• 2+ years of experience with any Cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Private Cloud)

• 6+ years of experience in developing Microservice (REST APIs) using Kotlin and/or Java 8 onwards.

• Deep understanding of event-driven application development involving Kafka and so on.

• Deep understanding of observability tools like Prometheus, OpenTracing, ELK stack and so on.

• Deep understanding of REST principle as a provider and consumer.

• Strong experience with any NSQL databases (Cassandra or any similar No-SQL database)

• Deep understanding of any SQL databases like Oracle or Postgres.

• Deep understanding of API Gateways like APIGEE or Isitio service mesh.

• Experience with any of the Container Orchestration technologies – Kubernetes, Openshift, Docker etc.

• Deep understanding of CI/CD process and tools like – Git, Docker, Jenkins, Spinnaker, XL Release etc.

• Successful track record of developing middleware solutions, with a strong focus on code quality, unit testing, integration testing, code quality analysis tools and API (Swagger) documentation.

• Familiar with agile application development methods. Understanding of QE processes in general.

• Willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software.

• Standout colleague. Good communication skills.

• Cryptography experience preferable.

  
  

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

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