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Senior Engineer
AWM-791-Senior Engineer
6/4/2025
6/9/2025
Negotiable
Permanent

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www.amex.com
Phoenix, AZ, 85067, USA
Phoenix
Arizona
United States
85067

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Description

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll 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.

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How will you make an impact in this role?

Responsible for contacting clients with overdue accounts to secure the settlement of the account. Also they do preventive work to avoid future overdues with accounts that have a high exposure.

How will you make an impact in this role?

  • Leads the design, development, testing, solving, debugging, deployment, documentation, reliability, and availability of software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end-user tools and applications.

  • Perform technical aspects of software development.

  • Function as a leader on a software engineering team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation).

  • Lead code reviews and automated testing.

  • Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation.

  • Leads the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.

  • Empower teams to automate deployments in test or production environments.

  • Empower teams to automatically scale applications based on demand projections.

  • Ensure team adheres to security and regulatory standard methodologies.

  • Takes accountability for the success of the team achieving their goals.

  • Drives the team’s strategy and priorities initiatives.

  • Influence team members by challenging status quo, demonstrating risk taking, and implementing creative ideas.

  • Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analyzing your work flow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.

  • Mentor and guide team members to success within the team

  • Be a productivity multiplier across multiple teams by analyzing your work flow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.

  • Owns the health and quality of the code across the portfolio.

  • Ensure streamlined CI/CD pipeline from the teams.

  • Collaborates with leadership across multiple teams to define solution requirements and technical implementation.

  • Demonstrate technical expertise to help team members overcome technical problems.

  • Solves technical problems outside of day-to-day responsibilities.

  • Supplies to the success of many teams achieving their goals.

  • Develop team’s strategy and prioritize initiatives.

  • Assist in retaining and hiring dedicated team members

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred

  • 6 years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:

  • 4-5 years' of experience working in Java and able to demonstrate good Java knowledge and exposure to OOPS concepts

  • Proven experience leading teams of engineers.

  • Hands-on expertise with application design, software development, and automated testing.

  • Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.

  • Ability to demonstrate good web fundamentals & knowledge of DOM.

  • Thorough understanding of XML,SOAP, JSON, web services technologies, and data structure fundamentals, with experience in multi-threaded programming.

  • Experience writing adaptive and responsive UI applications

  • Knowledge of HTML5, React, Redux, Angular, Express, Middleware with recent experience in ES6

  • Hands-on experience working in RESTful API design and implementation.

  • 3 years experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) / Behavior Driven Development (BDD) practices, unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing, GUI testing, web service testing, and browser compatibility testing, including frameworks such as, WebDriver IO, Cucumber.JS

  • Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery(CI/CD)

  • 5 yrs working experience in an Agile or SAFe development environment

  • 1 year experience of Graph QL & Cloud is a big plus.

  • Ability to balance priorities and break down complex problems to manageable chunks that can be delivered incrementally.

  • Must be willing and able to express new ideas, concerns and opinions directly to wider team including tech and business partners in team meetings in person or video/tele conferencing.

  • Good communication skills - able to explain technical concepts to designers, product managers and business partners in ways that are meaningful to them.

  • Collaborative work ethics to thrive on peer support and taking pride in of products and capabilities delivered as a team.

  • Ability to act as a change agent in rapidly evolving business requirements and platform roadmap.

  • Experience in a11y and I18N is a plus

Bonus Points:

  • Experience using other JVM languages (Closure, Scala, Kotlin)

  • Experience with DDD (Domain Driven Design)

  • Experience in a fast-paced startup environment

  • Contribution to open source projects

  • Building and maintaining personal projects in public repositories like GitHub

Qualifications

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually bonus benefits

The 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:

  • 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .

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. That's 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.

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Job: Technology

Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25009315

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