Software Engineer II - Java - Ace Studio Platform

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.

The Enterprise Data and AI organization unites the data governance, strategy, engineering, and product teams with those responsible for AI engineering, generative AI enablement, and automation product and engineering. This group plays a pivotal role in leveraging data as a core driver of innovation and integrating AI capabilities to transform products, operations, and customer experiences. The EDAI organization also incorporates technology Research & Development and experimentation with emerging capabilities, along with engineering support for Amex Digital Labs. This integration ensures that research breakthroughs seamlessly translate into business impact.

Job Description:

The team integrates human actions with intelligent automations to drive process excellence across AXP operations and servicing.  We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will understand the problem statement of operations team and create Process Management, Case Management, Work Management solutions that automate repeatable, multistep business transactions. 

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and manage enterprise platform and frameworks for Process Management, Case Management, Work Management

• Designing, developing, and supporting shared technology services used by the enterprise

• Writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation

• Taking your place as a core member of an agile team driving the latest development practices

• Finding opportunities for adopting modern technologies

Qualifications:

• Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical field

• Up to 6 years of software development experience

• Hands on experience in some or all the following Programming Languages and Frameworks:

  • Java, one NoSQL Technology, Redis, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Drools, Elastic Stack, Kafka, Git, RDBMS like Postgres SQL, Spring Boot, multi-threaded programming, Maven, Gradle, JUnit

  • Experience in React, Envoy, gRPC, Spark, Consul, RPA (Robotics Process Automation) is a plus

• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions

• Willingness to learn modern technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential

• Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability.

• Strong