You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.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. Function Description: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:<ul><li>Drive user story analysis and elaboration, design and develop software applications, and test and build automation tools</li><li>Own all technical aspects of software development (architecture, design and development of systems) for assigned applications</li><li>Perform hands-on software development, API specs, doing proof of concepts, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints</li><li>Drive consistent development practices - tools and common components</li><li>Develop deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains</li><li>Work with technical product managers contributing to blueprints, and assisting with annual planning of feature sets</li><li>Identify opportunities for adopting new technology to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges</li><li>Effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on solution design</li><li>Mentor other engineers</li></ul>Purpose: Create a more powerful and personal customer experience by designing and developing relevant software applicationsCritical Factors to Success (Outcome Driven):Business Outcomes:<ul><li>Understand the business needs and design high quality software applications in timely manner to fulfill those needs</li><li>Identify and adopt new technologies to solve existing business needs and predict future challenges. </li></ul>Leadership Outcomes:<ul><li>Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role’s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues &amp; shareholders</li><li>Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings</li><li>Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity</li><li>Lead with a digital mindset and deliver the world’s best customer experiences every day </li></ul>Past Experience :2+ Yrs of past experience across;<ul><li>Design and development using Java, J2EE, APIs</li><li>Continuous integration/deployment in an Agile Framework covering the aspect of design development and testing (SDLC)</li><li>Multi-threading programming, Data structures, &amp; web services technology</li><li>DevOps and test driven development</li></ul>Academic Background:Bachelor’s Degree in CS or CSE or Equivalent Skills/Capabilities:Functional:<ul><li>Strong analytical &amp; strategic thinking skills</li><li>Ability to interpret technical /business objectives and challenges</li><li>Porting/Software Configuration</li><li>Agile Methodologies</li><li>Software development/ testing</li><li>Object oriented analysis and design across multiple platform</li><li>Designing High Availability applications</li></ul>Technical/Platforms:<ul><li>Java 8 &amp; above, vert.x, RxJava,</li><li>Event driven programming paradigm, Kafka.</li><li>REST APIs, Microservices design patterns</li><li>Databases: RDBMS– Orcale, NoSql – Couchbase, S3</li></ul>·       Knowledge of UI frameworks like ReactJS, Javascript, ,microfrontends is an added advantage.<ul><li>GoF design patterns </li><li>Source control (Git, Bitbucket etc). Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Maven, XLR, Mockito, JMeter)</li><li>Knowledge of PaaS. Container Concepts (LXD, Docker). Orchestration Concepts (Kubernetes)</li></ul>Preferred:<ul><li>Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)</li><li>Test automation, DevOps and Test Driven Development</li></ul>Behavioral:Enterprise Leadership Behaviors:<ul><li>Set The Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective</li><li>Bring Others With You: Build the Best Team, Seek &amp; Provide Coaching Feedback, Make Collaboration Essential</li><li>Do It The Right Way: Communicate Frequently, Candidly &amp; Clearly, Make Decisions Quickly &amp; Effectively, Live the Blue Box Values, Great Leadership Demands Courage</li></ul> 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>Support for financial-well-being and retirement </li><li>Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) </li><li>Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need </li><li>Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) </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>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.

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