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Senior Software Development Engineer

American Express Global Business Travel
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 22 Aug 2025
💰 $242,500/yr($130,600/yr$242,500/yr)

About the role

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.

We’re looking for a senior level engineer to be part of our growing team of technologists. In this role, you’ll write software alongside a team of global engineers on projects that matter to our customers and business travelers, and have the opportunity to mentor junior engineers. If you’re passionate about directly contributing to technical challenges, working independently and collaboratively across business units, and bringing thought leadership to improve our products, we look forward to meeting you. 

 

What You’ll Do 

  • Design and implement next-generation highly scalable, and reliable SaaS applications 
  • Translate functional specifications into logical, component-based technical designs 
  • Own delivery of application features end-to-end by working with product and engineering teams 
  • Innovate and implement new ideas to solve software problems and improve customer experience 
  • Participate in design and code reviews 
  • Work closely with geographically distributed team members 
  • Mentor, support and develop junior engineers 
  • Seek and share domain and industry knowledge with the team to improve engineering practices 

 

What We’re Looking For 

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent 
  • 6+ years of experience in software development 
  • Core skills and knowledge areas: 
  • Front-end web technologies (JavaScript, Node, or React)
  • Enterprise web applications (Java, Kotlin, or Spring)   
  • Object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms 
  • SDLC and agile methodologies, and agile tools and programming practices 
  • CI-CD principles and technologies 
  • AWS services and building deployment pipelines 
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems 
  • Building and delivering multi-tenant cloud-native SaaS software 
  • Passionate about collaboration and incorporating feedback from partners 
  • Passion for maintaining high-quality standards in software development 
  • Communicates complex information in a concise and clear way to technical and non-technical partners 

 

     

Location

Bellevue, Washington, United States

     

The US national base salary range for this position is from 

$130,600.00 - $242,500.00

The national range provided includes the base salary that GBT expects to pay for the role.  Actual base salary will be based on factors including the scope and complexity of the role and the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, knowledge, and work location.

For information about our comprehensive US benefits programs and eligibility, please review our Benefits-at-a-Glance document.

Company

American Express Global Business Travel

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