Job Description

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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.

You won't just craft the world of software. You'll craft the world of life, work, and play.
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 points of view are at the core of how we build a more powerful, personal, and fulfilling experience for all our customers. So, if you're interested in a career crafting breakthrough software and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further!
You won't just keep up; you'll break new ground.

American Express is looking for a hands-on Engineer I in the Risk Decision Technologies (RDT) organization for the Data Engineering team. The RDT team is responsible for cross-domain, configurable platforms to enable best-in-class risk management and American Express growth with strong governance. The Data Engineering team is embarking on a journey to build Next-gen data platform to support critical Risk Business functions like payments authorization, new account fulfilment, credit collections and underwriting risk.
Risk Data Management (RDM) platform powers the risk assessment engine with large scale Big data, and highly available transactional data stores and also support data publishing capabilities. The platform also includes cloud native applications to support low latency, scalable and modular architecture.
This role of a Engineer I will be an integral part of a team that designs and builds large-scale, cloud-native applications and drive us closer to the vision of a robust Risk data platform.

As a Engineer I, you will:

• Function as a team member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development and test practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation.
• Have primary focus (80%+) on writing quality code, perform unit testing and test automation in ongoing sprints.
• Build new micro-services that help manages our rapidly growing data hub.
• Work to introduce new design improvements based on latest tech stack
• Improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability of our data pipelines.
• Work on cross-functional initiatives and collaborate with Engineers across organizations.
• Build CICD pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
• Build automation for application changes and deployment for faster time to market.
• Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
• Perform ongoing refactoring of code, quality assurance and testing, applying best practice methodologies and processes.
• Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies & ideas in development / test area.
• Provide continuous support for ongoing application availability.
• Collaborate/influence within and across teams to create successes with an innovative mindset and challenge the status quo.

• Hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other related field (or has equivalent work experience).
• 5+ years of experience in software development .
• 2+ years of experience in Java development and building large scale distributed applications using spring boot framework
• 2+ years of experience with database technologies like Oracle, DB2.
• Experience with Big data technologies and NoSQL database preferred.
• Experience with Kafka messaging , Docker and Kubernetes preferred.
• Experience with automated release management using Maven, Salt, Git, Jenkins.
• Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities
• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels across functions, from both technical and non-technical perspectives alike

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.

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