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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.

About the Role

This role is part of the Commercial Loyalty engineering team, responsible for building and operating backend platforms that power loyalty, benefits, and partner experiences for Commercial customers. As a Software Engineer II, you will be a strong backend-focused individual contributor who designs, builds, and maintains reliable, scalable services and data systems.

You will work closely with senior engineers, engineering managers, product partners, and cross-functional teams, contributing to core platform capabilities while continuing to grow your technical depth and mentorship impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain backend and server-side systems , with a focus on scalability, reliability, and data integrity.

• Build and evolve API-driven services , including RESTful and service-oriented architectures, that support Commercial Loyalty use cases and integrations.

• Contribute to the design and implementation of transactional and analytical data systems , ensuring correctness, performance, and scalability.

• Work with batch and streaming data pipelines to support data ingestion, processing, and downstream consumption across the Loyalty platform.

• Apply sound data architecture and platform design principles to support long-term maintainability and extensibility.

• Ensure data quality through validation, testing, monitoring, and thoughtful schema and contract design.

• Participate in technical design discussions, contributing ideas and helping evaluate tradeoffs related to system design, APIs, and data flows.

• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code that adheres to established technical standards and best practices.

• Contribute to and improve automated testing strategies , including unit, integration, and service-level tests, to ensure high confidence in changes.

• Review code for accuracy, quality, and maintainability, providing constructive feedback and helping raise overall code quality.

• Support observability and monitoring for backend and data systems, helping teams detect, diagnose, and resolve issues effectively.

• Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing, fostering engineering excellence and continuous learning.

• Collaborate closely with product managers, business partners, and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.

• Participate in Agile development practices such as sprint planning, stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives.

Education and Knowledge

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or comparable experience; advanced degree preferred.

• Knowledge of distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, relational databases, and NoSQL technologies.

• Familiarity with backend frameworks, data stores, and messaging systems used to build and operate enterprise platforms.

• Understanding of tools and practices used to plan, design, build, test, deploy, and monitor backend applications and data systems.

Work Experience and Qualifications

• Professional experience in software engineering or a related role, with emphasis on backend or server-side development .

• Experience designing and implementing APIs (REST and/or SOA-style services).

• Experience working with transactional and analytical data systems , including relational and NoSQL databases.

• Experience with batch and/or streaming data processing systems.

• Experience with automated testing practices and test strategies for backend services.

• Experience applying code quality, maintainability, and technical standards in a team environment.

• Experience working in Agile software development environments (Scrum and/or Kanban).

Qualifications

Salary Range: $123,000.00 to $215,250.00 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: United States

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 26000229