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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.

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The Financial Insights and Tools group within Digital Banking is responsible for software that enhance the American Express customer experience by providing applications and supporting platforms to enrich the information, analysis and planning available to our customers. Our software will be threaded through the web and mobile applications used by American Express customers, powered by APIs and underlying platforms to consume, and process financial data both within and from outside our company.

We are looking for an experienced, motivated, and collaborative Senior Software Engineer to help us achieve our goals of building noteworthy high quality financial analysis and tools for our customers. We want you to help provide technical expertise and acumen to our growing team in pursuit of our customer experience goals.

Our platform is built on top of a modern stack consisting of Kotlin/JVM for the back end interacting with other Java/JVM services internally, and a React based front end. We reach out to many APIs internally and externally to aggregate and analyze customer information.

How will you make an impact in this role? 

As a developer, you will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of your software from inception to production, working on a mixture of green- and brown-field projects, learning from, and contributing to your peer group. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be applying your experience and earned acumen to guide the shape of our platform and help mentor and guide the team. 

Minimum Qualifications: 

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience Understanding of service-based architectures Understanding of web applications and use APIs to power them Proven experience with live applications and production environments · 5+ years of software development experience with strong knowledge in Java/JVM/Kotlin, Rest APIs and exposure to alternate JVM languages Technical Skills:  Creativity & Problem-Solving Adaptability & Flexibility Aptitude for technology; curiosity, passion and startup mindset Applied statistics skills: distributions, statistical testing, regression analysis Innovative thinking Java/Kotlin/JVM Databases: Postgres, MongoDB, Redis Source Code Control: Working experience using GitHub, Bitbucket, RhodeCode · Production monitoring and logging tools (i.e. CloudWatch, Prometheus, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, ELF) Container orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, GCP GKE, AWS ECS, AWS EKS CI/CD platforms (we are using GitHub Actions) Other: Git, Gitflow, Jira, Gitlab, Trello, Scrum Frameworks: Ktor, Spring 

Other Skills (that will be a plus):

Full stack experience and willingness to dive into other levels of web applications · Web technologies – An in-depth knowledge and experience working with web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, C#, SASS, Stylus, Stylus, Python, and LESS. React tools – proficiency in Enzyme, Webpack, Redux, and Flux. Web frameworks – Proven expertise in diberent frameworks like React Native, AngularJS, Angular2, VueJS, SocketIO, Backbone, KnockoutJS, Svelte, and Bootstrap. Open-source Libraries – Demonstrable experience with JQuery, MomentJS, html5sql.js, RequireJS, and Loads. Software testing tools – A good working knowledge in testing codes using Mocha, Jest, Unit-tests, TDD, Karma, VCS, and Selenium (base). Databases – A familiarity of working with diberent databases such as MySQL, NoSQL(e.g., MongoDB), PostgreSQL, Redis is recommended. Cloud management – A strong background in diberent cloud platforms like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack Apache, and Google Cloud Platform 

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

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