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When you join Team Amex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we champion your meaningful career journey with programs, benefits, and flexibility to back you personally and professionally. Every colleague shares in the company’s success.

Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to our customers, communities, and each other every day. And, we’ll do it with integrity and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they truly belong.

Join #TeamAmex and let’s lead the way together.

Job Description:

The Amex in a Box engineering group is building and integrating foundational technology for a globally distributed "Amex as a service" offering. Our goal is to be able to rapidly deploy new instances of this offering so that the company can bring products to market quickly with superior economics and provide the world’s best experience to our customers around the world.

We’re looking for engineers to be part of an empowered, self-organizing group that is just starting up, with the opportunity to use modern languages and tools and to deploy software in public cloud environments. Our multi-functional teams span the stack, from front ends to APIs to databases, and they have all the skills and resources they need to build, ship and operate their own software.

Some of the problems we'll work on include:

• Defining the developer experience for Amex applications of the future
• Provisioning the infrastructure and installing the software for hundreds of apps at once
• Building and operating global services that have compute and data partitioned across geographically distributed data centers

As a Software Engineer (E1) in our group, you will:

• Scope technical projects and break them down into user stories and tasks within an engineering team
• Directly contribute to the design and coding of our software systems, serving as a role model for how great software is built at Amex
• Build systems that are secure, reliable, scalable, and extensible
• Make sound technical decisions applying the advice of teammates and contribute to technical conversations with other engineering teams
• Mentor junior team members and assist with projects that develop their skills

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. Amex 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 on #TeamAmex.

Minimum Qualifications

You may be a fit if:

• You have at least 3 years of experience working in a professional environment as a software engineer
• You have contributed to the design and build of cloud-native applications written in Java or Go
• You have done “DevOps” work, such as building CI/CD pipelines or setting up cloud hosting environments
• You have some experience mentoring more junior engineers, helping them to succeed and grow in their roles
• You build effective work relationships, giving and receiving constructive feedback, and your colleagues at all levels and across all teams trust you

Technologies we use at Amex include:

• Go and Java are our primary server languages, with Kotlin and TypeScript starting to gain traction, and JavaScript and Python used in niche situations
• Our browser applications are based on React
• Code lives in GitHub Enterprise and flows to production through a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions
• Code runs in Kubernetes-managed Docker containers hosted in a mix of private and public clouds
• Other key tech includes GraphQL, gRPC, Kafka, Postgres, Couchbase, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redis, OpenTracing, Jaeger, Prometheus, and Grafana

In this position, you may choose to work either fully virtually or in a hybrid configuration, coming into a technology campus regularly but infrequently (approximately 2 days out of every 2 weeks). Our teams will be distributed across the UK and the US Eastern and Central time zones.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

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.

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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