About the position
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. As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers' digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.
Responsibilities
- Deliver technical solutions to problems identified
- Drive the resolution of problems by identifying the root cause and implementing code fixes
- Analyze the existing technology environment and develop technical recommendations to improve system/application performance and lead improvement implementation
- Provide post-implementation production support for processes
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in related field preferred; Relevant industry experience can substitute
- 6+ years of engineering experience in a complex environment, such as a large-scale development team
- Detailed understanding of applicable programming methodologies
- Problem solving and analytical skills
- Programming languages and framework, with an 'automation first' attitude
- Managing all aspects of the software configuration management process including code compilation and application configuration
- Expertise in setting up Docker client, Docker images from Docker file and handling multiple images by storing them in container to deploy
- Troubleshoot and optimize all aspects of application by utilizing the data from Splunk including the Splunk search head
Nice-to-haves
- JAVA EE
- Spring
- Database Experience (MySQL, IBM Db2)
- REST API Experience
- Big Data Experience in Spark, Hadoop, Hive
- Cloud Technologies: AWS (EC2, ELB, S3), Open Stack, Docker
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
- Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
- 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
