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American Express Senior Engineer II in Karnataka, India
Description
You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.
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.
Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.
Function Description:
American Express is embarking on an exciting transformation driven by an energetic new team of high performers. This group is nimble and creative with the power to shape our technology and product roadmap. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative payment products and services at a rapid pace, serving our customers seamlessly across physical, digital, mobile, and social media, join our transformation team! You will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering projects platform supporting our global customer base.
Our Engineers that join our Technologies team will be assigned to one of several exciting teams that are responsible for development and management of business critical platforms. You will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering projects platform supporting our global customer base. You will be challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers. Our Software Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day. Today, innovative ideas, insight and new perspectives are at the core of how we create a more powerful, personal and fulfilling experience for all our customers.
Responsibilities:
Drive user story analysis and elaboration, design and develop software applications
Own all technical aspects of software development (architecture, design and development of systems) for assigned applications
Perform hands-on software development, API specs, doing proof of concepts, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints
Drive consistent development practices - tools and common components
Develop deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
Work with technical product managers contributing to blueprints, and assisting with annual planning of feature sets
Identify opportunities for adopting new technology to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges
Effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on solution design
Mentor other engineers
Facilitate program increment planning meetings with leadership, business stakeholders, product management and delivery teams on the Agile Release Train(s)
Partner with business owners, product managers and product owners to help assure strategy, vision and road map alignment and execution
Lead a team of engineers in the capacity of a scrum master.
Critical Factors to Success (Outcome Driven):
Business Outcomes:
Understand the business needs and design high quality software applications in timely manner to fulfill those needs
Identify and adopt new technologies to solve existing business needs and predict future challenges.
Leadership Outcomes:
Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role’s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders
Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings
Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity
Lead with a digital mindset and deliver the world’s best customer experiences every day
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
8 Years experience in software design, development
8 Years programming experience in Java, J2EE, APIs
Continuous integration/deployment in an Agile Framework covering the aspect of design development and testing (SDLC)
Multi-threading programming, Data structures, & web services technology
Worked in Agile framework
Functional:
Strong analytical & strategic thinking skills
Ability to interpret technical /business objectives and challenges
Porting/Software Configuration
Agile Methodologies
Software development/ testing
Object oriented analysis and design across multiple platform
Designing High Availability applications
Technical/Platforms:
Java 8 & above, vert.x, RxJava, J2EE
Event driven programming paradigm, Kafka.
REST APIs, Microservices design patterns
Databases: RDBMS– Orcale, NoSql – Couchbase, S3
Knowledge of UI frameworks like ReactJS, Javascript, ,microfrontends is an added advantage.
GoF design patterns
Source control (Git, Bitbucket etc). Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Maven, XLR, Mockito, JMeter)
Knowledge of PaaS. Container Concepts (LXD, Docker). Orchestration Concepts (Kubernetes)
Strong understanding of scrum concepts and ceremonies
Enterprise Leadership Behaviours:
Set The Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective
Bring Others With You: Build the Best Team, Seek & Provide Coaching Feedback, Make Collaboration Essential
Do It The Right Way: Communicate Frequently, Candidly & Clearly, Make Decisions Quickly & Effectively, Live the Blue Box Values, Great Leadership Demands Courage
Qualifications
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
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.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
Job: Technology
Primary Location: India-Karnataka-Bengaluru Urban
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 24012026
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