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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.

About Enterprise Architecture:

Enterprise Architecture is an organization at American Express, and it is a key enabler of the company’s technology strategy. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:

• Architecture as Code: this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.

• Architecture as Design: this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.

• Governance: this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards, and developing innovative tools that automate controls to ensure compliance.

• Colleague Enablement: this pillar is focused on colleague development, recognition, training, and enterprise outreach.

What you will be working on:

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Enterprise Architecture team. In this role you will be designing and implementing highly scalable real-time systems following the best practices and using the cutting-edge technology. This role is best suited for experienced engineers with broad skillset who are open, curious and willing to learn.

As a member of this team, you will be exposed to technologies such as Kubernetes, gRPC, REST, Istio, Consul, Envoy, Jaeger, OpenTracing, OpenShift, Prometheus & Grafana. You will get hands on experience working on a highly available API Platform leveraged by all capabilities across American Express.

Qualifications:

What you will Bring :

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience

• 9 years of progressive experience demonstrating strong architecture, programming and engineering skills.

• Firm grasp of data structures, algorithms with fluency in programming languages like Java, Kotlin, Go and understands technologies like REST, OpenAPI, Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy & gRPC

• Demonstrated ability to lead, partner, and collaborate cross functionally across many engineering organizations

• Knowledge of automation process to bring in a high reliable and zero downtime platform

• Experience in building real-time large scale, high volume, distributed data pipelines on top of data buses (Kafka).

• Hands on experience with large scale distributed NoSQL databases like Elasticsearch

• Knowledge and/or experience with containerized environments, Kubernetes, docker.

• Experience in implementing and maintained highly scalable micro services in Rest, GRPC

• Appetite for trying new things and building rapid POCs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Maintain & develop new API frameworks in technologies such as REST and gRPC

• Ensure the site reliability of frameworks to 5 – 9’s

• Help pivot toward serverless, FaaS based, architectures

• Build & manage platforms to help teams across the company quickly deploy A2A, B2B, B2C & C2B services

• Evangelize the API engineering transformation at an accelerated pace

• Collaborate with technology peers and leaders to gain strategic alignment

• Foster innovation and experimentation

• Responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning

• Create a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration topics

• Knowledge of OpenTelemetry / OpenTracing

Qualifications

Salary Range: $120,000.00 to $210,000.00 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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Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

Job: Technology

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25015822