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Backend Engineer

Description

We are looking for a Backend Engineer, Web Technology (individual contributor position) to ensure optimal

design/architecture of the web components that power our digital experiences which are crucial for our customers as we

strive to be essential to their everyday lives. Continuing to drive innovation and delivery in digital channels is a key part of

the strategy for continuing to delight customers.

Our Software Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who

count on it every day. Today, innovative ideas, insight and new perspectives are at the core of how we create a more

powerful, personal, and fulfilling experience for all our customers. If you're interested in a career creating breakthrough

software and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further.

Responsibilities

• Performs hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems.

• Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies.

• Work with Staff Engineer to define solution requirements and technical implementation approach.

• Drive both high-level and detailed technical designs and conduct design reviews as needed.

• Actively participate in team and company-wide architecture and engineering discussions and forums.

• Analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software for use in local, networked, cloud-based or Internet-related

environments.

• Responsible for health and quality of the code across the portfolio, including leadership over SCM, functional testing,

and CI/CD tool integration.

Qualifications:

• Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline.

• 7+ years of software development experience.

• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions.

• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential.

• Skilled in the delivery methodology used by the team (Agile, Scrum, AgileXP, Test-Driven Development, Waterfall,

etc.).

• Active engineering experience in a complex environment with ability to deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems.

• Expertise in building fault-tolerant, scalable solutions that are performed at a global enterprise scale.

• 6+ Years of experience with Java, Reactive Programming using RxJava, Vert.x.

• 5+ Expertise with integrating RESTful APIs.

• Experience working with database technologies including NoSQL DBs.

• Experience with Kotlin programming language.

• Experience with Web technologies like React, JavaScript Frameworks, HTML5, CSS3 is a plus.

• Past working experiences with other languages are a plus.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color,

religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any

other status protected by law.