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American Express Back End Engineer II in Karnataka, India
Description
You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.
With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.
At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.
Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.
The Backend Engineer, American Express Web Engineering will be an individual contributor who may ensure optimal design/architecture of the web components that power our digital experiences which are crucial for our customers as we strive to be essential to their everyday lives. Continuing to drive innovation and delivery in digital channels is a key part of the strategy for continuing to delight 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. So if you’re interested in a career creating breakthrough software and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further.
Responsibilities:
Performs hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems
Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies
Work with Staff Engineer to define solution requirements and technical implementation approach
Drive both high-level and detailed technical designs and conduct design reviews as needed
Actively participate in team and company-wide architecture and engineering discussions and forums
Analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software for use in local, networked, cloud-based or Internet-related environments
Responsible for health and quality of the code across the portfolio, including leadership over SCM, functional testing, and CI/CD tool integration
Qualifications:
Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline
6 years of software development experience
Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions
Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
Skilled in the delivery methodology used by the team(Agile, Scrum, AgileXP, Test-Driven Development, Waterfall, etc.)
Active engineering experience in a complex environment with ability to deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems
Expertise in building fault-tolerant, scalable solutions and system design at a global enterprise scale
6 Years of experience with Java, Reactive Programming using RxJava, Vert.x
5 Expertise with integrating RESTful, GraphQL APIs
Experience working with database technologies including NoSQL DBs
Experience with Kotlin programming language is a plus
Experience with Web technologies like React, JavaScript Frameworks, HTML5, CSS3 is a plus
Past working experiences with other languages are a plus
Qualifications
We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
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
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.
Job: Technology
Primary Location: India-Karnataka-Bengaluru Urban
Other Locations: India-India-Bangalore
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 24009749