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.

As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

American Express Global Card Network Platform authorizes and processes all of the company’s customer card transactions. The Card Network platform is the critical back bone for all of American Express card transactions and is a near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year. American Express is making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to allow the company to meet its ambitious global growth agenda. American Express is looking for strong leaders and engineers to be part of high energy and efficient teams that will build and support our next generation card network systems.

How will you impact the Role?

As Software Engineer III, you will be a hands-on engineer building highly available and scalable distributed system on the cloud that supports the company's long-term strategy and vision. Your primary responsibility is design and develop our next generation distributed transaction platform supporting Amex card transactions.

Key Initiatives:

• Card Network Authorizations/Routing, Card Tokenization, Clearing and Settlement
• Omni-channel platforms and partner connectivity management
• Data Localization and Regulatory Compliance
• ATM, Debit, Credit and Push Payment Transactions, Real Time Settlement
• Platform Engineering and Foundational Capabilities of distributed systems
• High Availability, Resiliency and Performance Engineering on Cloud

Responsibilities Include:

• Designs, develops, solves problems, debugs, evaluates, modifies, deploys, and documents software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.
• You will constantly pursue and learn industry leading/innovative technologies and solutions. Be acutely aware of enabling technologies and open-source products to build low latency distributed systems.
• Embrace a culture of innovation and experimentation, engage in fun and outcome-oriented culture, and always be ready to try new concepts without fear of failure.

Qualifications:

• B.Tech. / B.E. / M.Tech. / M.S. in Computer Science or relevant discipline
• 5+ years of hands-on experience building scalable, high-performance platforms and microservices.
• Strong implementation experience using object-oriented languages like C/C++, Java or Go (Java Preferred). Keen understanding of how to build highly performant systems with such languages.
• Strong coding skills and fundamentals with hands on experience in building distributed micro-service systems, experience with Service Mesh products/frameworks like such as Envoy, Linkerd, Istio, gRPC/Proto Buf; Business Rule Management experience with tools such as Drools.
• Experience developing and maintaining distributed, elastic micro-service applications that self-heal in the event of failures.
• Distributed System Management/tracing and monitoring such as Zipkin/Jaeger, ELK Stack, Grafana Prometheus
• Experience in using NoSQL databases and distributed messaging systems such as Redis, Kafka, Couchbase, Cassandra in the context of low latency and high transaction volume systems.
• Experience in building Restful APIs, with Event Driven and Reactive programming.
• Hands on experience using Jenkins, Git, Stash. Previous Continuous Integration (CICD) experience 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.