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.

Senior Java/Kotlin Software Engineer - Digital Banking, Payments

The Payments Platform is responsible for clearing more than 500 million transactions a year globally, with a value of over 1 trillion dollars (Yep! that is not a typo, trillion with a T). This is a mission critical endeavor, with plenty of interesting engineering challenges in a space that is ripe for innovation. Open banking, ISO 20022, real-time/instant payments, and modern cross-border schemes are revolutionizing clearing and settlement. Our Platform is becoming the gateway to existing and emerging global payment rails; and we are using an innovative integration stack to “speak” the many schemes and formats. Beyond the transactional aspect, our differentiating value is contextual. A rich data backbone and deep integration with enterprise data sources allow us to offer powerful omnichannel APIs and extension points used by developers that build customer facing experiences such as P2P payments, loans, bill-pay, commercial cross border payments, AP automation, and many more.

We are beginning our journey of transforming the technical landscape in our teams to use a microservice architecture and are looking to bolster our technical talent by acquiring full-stack developers, using technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Spring, and React.

Responsibilities:

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.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience

Push Payments Expertise

5+ years of software development experience with strong knowledge in Java, Rest APIs, and exposure to alternate JVM languages: Kotlin, Clojure

Technical Skills:

Python, Scala, Node.js, Golang, Java, JavaScript, C++, C#,Kotlin

Database: MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Postgres

Search & log: Solr, Fruendt, Prometheus

Container orchestration: Kubernetes, GKE, Docker

CI/CD: Jenkins, SonarQube

Cloud services: Big Query, DataPro, Dataflow, Cloud SQL, Cloud Composer, AWS EMR

Other: Git, Gitflow, Jira, Bitbucket, Gitlab, Trello, Scrum

Frameworks: Quarkus, Ktor

NoSQL databases: MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase

Applied statistics skills: distributions, statistical testing, regression analysis

Creativity & Problem-Solving Skills

Adaptability & Flexibility

Aptitude for technology; curiosity, passion, and startup mindset

Innovative thinking

Other Skills (that will be a plus):

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 – Strong proficiency in Enzyme, Webpack, Redux, and Flux.

Web frameworks – Proven expertise in different 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 different databases such as MySQL, NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB), PostgreSQL, Redis is recommended.

Code repositories – Working experience using GitHub, Bitbucket, Rhode Code, and devZing Subversion

Cloud management – A strong background in different cloud platforms like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack Apache, and Google Cloud Platform