Senior Software Engineer - Global Dining

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 U.S. Consumer and Digital Technology (USCDT) Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments. 

American Express Ads, Offers, and Dining Technology brings together our advertising, offers, and dining platforms to elevate the Membership experience. The team drives the expansion of Amex Offers, the development of innovative digital advertising capabilities, and leads the end-to-end technology integration and platform development of our dining services to create seamless connections between diners, restaurants, and the broader American Express Membership ecosystem.

As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience a culture built on innovation, shared values, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers and colleagues. You’ll have the support, flexibility, and autonomy to make an impact while helping shape the future of how people discover, book, and enjoy dining experiences worldwide. 

• Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, and operations of complete software systems.  
• Function as a leader on a software engineering team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation) 
• Lead code reviews and automated testing 
• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation 
• Adhere to security and regulatory standard methodologies 

Leadership: 

• Self-motivated individual who works well with little direction. 
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking 
• Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analyzing your workflow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results. 

What we’re looking for: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required 
• 5+ years of software development experience in a professional environment. 
• Hands-on expertise with application design, software development and deployment of critical full stack applications 
• Understand all parts of a modern web-based application stack from Frontend to Backend and Production. 
• Experience with distributed systems, algorithms, and databases. 

Technologies used: 

• Modern Java, TypeScript, Python 
• MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka 
• Docker, Kubernetes, Linux 
• Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions 

 

Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions. 
 

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. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our powerful backing with comprehensi