Senior 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?

We’re looking for an experienced engineer to work on API development on the mobile payments solutions that will be used by tens of millions of cardholders around the world. We want someone who is super creative and enjoys solving tough problems. You should be able to come up with brilliant solutions that no one else can and be obsessive about API design and user experience.

This is an opportunity to work in a fast-paced, agile environment within a Fortune 100 company where you can directly impact real revenue growth and operational savings. Your primary responsibilities will be to work on a team of engineers in developing web products. You’ll work with product managers to help define product direction, provide thought leadership on emerging technologies, and create best of breed desktop and mobile web experiences that will set the standard for future development. You should be familiar with modern software development methodologies and be able to dive deep and rapidly iterate on ideas despite ambiguity.

This is an opportunity to work on the latest web technologies and influence how millions of people interact with their cards, their merchants, and their money.

Minimum Qualifications:

What You’ll Be Doing:

Perform hands-on architecture, design, development, and testing

Serve as a member of an agile team that drives user story analysis and elaboration, designs and develops software applications, and tests and builds automation tools

Utilize best-of-breed technologies to build microservices over existing American Express technologies

Be highly motivated and maintain a positive, “can-do” attitude in a fast moving environment

Build POCs to experiment new technologies and constantly pursue and learn industry leading/innovative technologies and solutions

Embrace 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.

Foster the spirit of collaboration across multiple internal teams

What You’ll