At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared <a target="_blank" href="https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/company/who-we-are/">values</a> 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.Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.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 &amp; 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 Amex—scaling 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 goalsAt 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:<ul><li>Agile Practices</li><li>Product Attitude</li><li>Analytical Thinking</li><li>Business Product Knowledge</li></ul>Responsibilities:<ul><li>Design, build and manage enterprise platform and frameworks for Process Management, Case Management, Work Management, Process Mining</li><li>Designing, developing, and supporting shared technology services used by the enterprise</li><li>Leading a small team of Java &amp; Devops engineers</li><li>Taking your place as a core member of an agile team driving the latest development practices</li><li>Writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation</li><li> Finding opportunities for adopting new technologies </li></ul>Qualifications:<ul><li>Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical field</li><li>8+ years of hand on software development experience</li><li>Experience in Process Management, Case Management, Work Management is required.</li><li>Experience in leading and driving overall project is required</li><li>Programming Languages and Frameworks – Hands on experience in some or all the following is preferred:</li><li>Java, Python, Gihub Actions, Helm Chart, Istio Service Mesh,  Envoy, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, gRPC, JSON, CouchBase, Consul, Jenkins, , Elastic Stack, Kafka, Spark, Git, RDBMS like Postgres SQL, Springboot, multi-threaded programming, Maven, Gradle, JUnit</li><li>Experience in Platform Engineering is preferred</li><li>Experience in Automations, AI / ML driving cost savings is preferred</li><li>Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions</li><li>Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential</li><li>Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability.</li><li>Strong experience in applications with high throughput and performance</li><li>Experience with micro services architectures and service mesh technologies is preferred.</li></ul> Salary Range: $123,000.00 to $215,250.00 annually + bonus + benefitsThe 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 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:<ul><li>Competitive base salaries </li><li>Bonus incentives </li><li>6% Company Match on retirement savings plan </li><li>Free financial coaching and financial well-being support </li><li>Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits </li><li>Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need </li><li>20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy </li><li>Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) </li><li>Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program </li><li>Career development and training opportunities</li></ul>For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our <a target="_blank" href="https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/colleagues/benefits">Colleague Benefits Site</a>.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.US Job Seekers - Click to view the “<a target="_blank" href="https://www.eeoc.gov/poster">Know Your Rights</a>” poster. If the link does not work, you may access the poster by copying and pasting the following URL in a new browser window: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.eeoc.gov/poster">https://www.eeoc.gov/poster</a>Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions