You Lead the Way. We've Got Your Back.

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 valuess 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.

About Enterprise Architecture:

• Enterprise Architecture is an organization at American Express. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:
• Architecture as Code: this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.
• Architecture as Design: this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.
• Governance: this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards and developing innovative tools that automate controls to ensure compliance.
• Colleague Enablement: this pillar is focused on colleague development, recognition, training, and enterprise outreach.

What you will be working on:

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Enterprise Architecture team. In this role you will be designing and implementing highly scalable real-time systems following the best practices and using the cutting-edge technology. This role is best suited for experienced engineers with broad skillset who are open, curious and willing to learn.

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 #Team Amex.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of progressive software experience demonstrating strong architecture, programming, and engineering skills

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with React

• Expertise in core frontend technologies – HTML, CSS, JavaScript

• Experience building well-architected RESTful APIs

• Demonstrated ability to lead, partner, and collaborate cross functionally across many engineering teams

Desired Skills & Experience

We’re looking for an engineer with a broad skillset, who has a passion for learning new technologies and building rapid proof of concepts. The ideal candidate would have experience with many of these technologies:

• 7+ years of proven Software development in one or more of the programming languages

• Java, Go, Python.

• Experience building backend APIs with JavaScript/Typescript

• Experience working in Agile tools like JIRA, Confluence, Git, GitHub Actions, CI/CD.

• Experience in leveraging AI/ML/Gen-AI based components in architectural solutions, with hands-on experience.

• Preferred experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI), LLMs, Gen-AI and Agentic AI usage

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, Data Analytics/Big Data platform development using Big Query, Dataflow, Dataproc .

• Enthusiasm for building secure, scalable, performant, and reliable enterprise applications

• Hands on experience with a relational database, with comfort with large schema design

• Knowledge of large scale distributed NoSQL databases

• Knowledge of Open Telemetry / Open Tracing

• Experience building and deploying on a major cloud provided (AWS, GCP)

• Knowledge of API Gateways and/or Service Mesh integration patterns

• Knowledge and/or experience with containerized environments, Kubernetes, Docker

• Open-source community involvement

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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.