Software Engineer III

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.

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.

The Global Merchant and Network Services Technology (GMNST) organization at American Express is responsible for modernizing the payments network to enable next-generation payments products. The team creates flexible merchant platforms to acquire, bill, pay, service and foster innovation, while enabling a payments ecosystem to connect and authenticate parties seamlessly and securely

American Express is making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to allow the company to meet its ambitious global growth agenda. Card Network platform is a distributed near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year. American Express Global Card Network Platform authorizes and processes all of the company’s customer card transactions.

Responsibilities:
As an Engineer, you will be a responsible to build core features and functions of card transaction systems on distributed platform deployed in hybrid cloud.

• You will be a core member of an agile team driving the latest development practices, writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation.
• You will be using Java Technologies – Vertx, Spring MVC, Spring Data and Spring Boot and RESTful micro services.
• Lead a culture of innovation and experimentation, engage in fun and outcome-oriented culture, and always be ready to try new concepts without fear of failure.
• Collaborate with peer technology and development teams across different locations.
• Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies
• Work along with stakeholders to understand and analyze the requirements.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Computer Science, or equivalent degree or industry experience. 

• 5 years of software development experience in a professional environment.
• Strong OOPs concepts, concurrency, exception handling etc.
• Data structures and Algorithms, Strong OS fundamentals, Advanced Java concepts
• Strong development experience using languages Java/ Go. Keen understanding of how to build highly performant systems with such languages.
• Hands on experience in building distributed micro-service systems, experience with Service Mesh products/frameworks like such as Envoy, Linkerd, Istio, gRPC/ProtoBuf; Distributed System Management/tracing and monitoring such as Zipkin/Jaeger, ELK Stack, Prometheus
• Have experience in designing and building Cloud native applications. Experience in cloud platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift are a plus.
• Experience in using NoSQL datab