Software Engineer

New York, NY, United States

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With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

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.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives.  Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems.  American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source.  And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development.  Find your place in technology of #TeamAmex.

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.

The Enterprise Identity team is responsible for driving the strategy and implementation of the global authentication (AuthN) and authorization (AuthZ) platform across all American Express applications for consumers, business users and API partners.

How will you make an impact in this role?

There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express. Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing:

Working on a critical enterprise platform that enables global authentication and authorization across all of American Express.

Taking your place as a core member of an agile team driving the latest development practices.

Writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation.

Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies.

Work in a scrum team of software engineers to build next generation of identity and access management platform for Amex customers.

Minimum Qualifications:

You have at least 2-3 years of experience working in a scrum team using agile methodologies for software delivery.

You have excellent technical and communication skills to clearly articulate and present solutions to complex problems.

You have at least 6+ years of hands-on software development experience using Java or similar programming language.

Having strong hands-on knowledge of Object-oriented programming like Java/J2EE on frameworks like spring boot.

You are an expert in building, testing, maintaining and debugging highly scalable and highly available production systems.

BS degree or higher in computer science or related discipline

Preferred Qualifications - Experience in the following areas is a plus:

Building APIs using techniques like REST, RPC (gRPC and similar), Functions (AWS Lambda)

Public internet and intranet Authentication and Authorization Models using JWT, OAuth and OpenID

Golang development

Project experience with highly available and strongly consistent databases: traditional or key-value stores.

Relational and non-relational databases Oracle, DB2, Postgres, Casandra and mongo.

Proficient with Splunk and Linux/Unix technologies.

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 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.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

Competitive base salaries

Bonus incentives

6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)

Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program

Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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