Software Engineer I - Java - Digital Payments

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 Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.

You’ll be part of the Digital Payments Engineering team whose mandate is to develop new products and platforms for American Express customers.  Payments Engineering’s aim is to build interactive experiences at all touch points of a consumer's journey whether before, at, or after the time of purchase.  The products will range from new payment vehicles and partnerships with other payment entities to interactive mobile experiences.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Responsible for Design, Build and maintain scalable data pipelines using GCP services like Dataflow ( Apache Beam)
• Orchestrate workflows using Cloud Composer ( Apache Airflow) to mange pipeline scheduling and dependencies.
• Experience developing data ingestion processes from various sources (API’s, databases, flat files)
• Experience in Cleaning, enriching, and transforming raw data using tools like BigQuery SQL and document data lineage and transformations and Implementing data quality checks.
• Write efficient, complex SQL queries for data transformation, validation and reporting.
• Collaborate with analysts and stakeholders to gather data requirements, create data sets that feed BI tools.
• Monitor data pipeline performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure data quality and integrity.
• Implement best practices in CI/CD, testing and documentation for data pipeline development.
• Work in an agile environment with version control tools like Git, Jenkins etc.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science/Engineering or 1+ years of equivalent experience in related fields
• Proven technical capabilities and ability to work collaboratively and optimally with a range of stakeholders
• Worked in a product company
• Knowledge of developing trends and emerging standards in payments domain
• Attention to detail and strong organization skills

Salary Range: $78,000.00 to $124,750.00 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.