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. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

How will you make an impact in this role

     This exciting role for JAVA Developers as a part of Business Enablement Team (aka Business Rules) under Capabilities. This organization leads the global standardization, design, development and maintenance of highly complex business rules supporting the Global Services division at American Express.

    This role will be responsible for defining and designing business process workflows in the new system as specified by business partners as well as development on business rules using JAVA, Jbpm, etc. Understanding the overall business objectives and translating in to efficient and well-thought-out workflows, business rules, decision tables and decision trees as required.

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:
•    Serving as a core member of an agile team that drives user story analysis and elaboration, designs and develops responsive applications using the best engineering practices
•    Performing hands-on software development, typically spending most of time actually writing code and unit tests, doing proof of concepts, conducting code reviews, and testing in ongoing sprints
•    Performing ongoing refactoring of code, and delivering continuous improvement
•    Developing deep understanding of integrations with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
•    Drive innovation and change through new capabilities like participating in the automation of existing manual processes and strategies into new the processes
•    Manage your own time and work well both independently and as part of a team.
•    Bring a culture of innovation, ideas, and continuous improvement
•    Challenging status quo, demonstrate risk taking, and implement creative ideas
•    Work closely with product managers, back-end and other front-end engineers to implement versatile solutions to tricky web development problems
•    Embrace emerging standards while promoting best practices and consistent framework usage.
•    Partnering with Global collections Operations, Strategy, Risk Management, Marketing and Technology throughout the project lifecycle.  

Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline or equivalent 4-6 years of work experience
  •    5 years’ experience working in Java and able to demonstrate good Java knowledge – Java 7 minimum and Java8 preferred, Jbpm
  •    Able to demonstrate good web fundamentals and HTTP protocol knowledge
  •    Good attitude, communication, willingness to learn and collaborate
  •    2-3 years’ development experience in developing Java applications in an enterprise setting
  •    1-2 years’ Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) / Behavior Driven Development (BDD) practices, unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing, GUI testing, web service testing, and browser compatibility testing, including frameworks such as Cucumber, JUnit, Mockito
  •    Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery environment

Preferred Qualifications

•    2-3 years’ working in an Agile or SAFe development environment is a plus

•     QA Automation experience will be a plus

•     Domain knowledge of Amex acquisition process will be a plus

•     Knowledge of Credit and Collection business will be a plus

•   2-3 years’ experience developing java applications in frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, BPM knowledge is a plus

 

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries 
• Bonus incentives 
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) 
• 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

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.  

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.