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DescriptionYou Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your BackWith 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 values 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 #TeamAmex and let’s lead the way together.The Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.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 on #TeamAmex.About our Organization and ProductThe Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat on the organization.One Data is a function as a service platform for our internal cloud platform within Amex. We are seeking to onboard a Senior Engineer to the One Data platform.With One Data, you’ll have the ability to build technology products that shape the way that developers across American Express build micro services. We had an immense growth in terms of the number of onboarded functions in 2023 and except that growth to continue/accelerate.We build and provide developer support for the product. We follow an everyone on support model .Our customers are developers, SREs. We do have a production support SRE team but it’s all hands-on deck to support American Express Card Members when the SRE team needs support.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 on #TeamAmex.Who you are
Are excited about technology, stays up to date with and brings in new technology – understands/participates in CNCF workgroups, developer mailing lists. In short, Be curious
Love dealing with fast pace, changing needs, & limited resources. Action bias.
Love freedom to execute and not expect every task to be defined ahead of time.
Have an Open source first model for building. Contribute, give back. Strive for excellence.
Understand and are excited 20% projects. You aim for moonshots but can get ground to deliver projects.
Coach, mentor other devs. You improve the team. You participate in American Express Technology Guilds to network with other developers.
Are maniacal about Developer Experience.
Disagree respectfully but commit. Bring people along. Articulate and drive change (6 pagers)
You are a manager of one
You know System design and scaling (CAP, Distributed Caches, Read/Write Replicas, Consistent Hashing, CQRS, CRDTs). Ability to break down complex/high level ideas into concrete design and provide proofs of concept.
Hands on Java Programming experience with core Java constructs - Collections, Exceptions, Streams, and Lambdas
Hands on experience with Async programming constructs of Java- Multithreading, Executors, Futures, CompletableFutures or Kotlin-Coroutines
Good to have knowledge on Virtual Threads and new features of Java 21 .
Experience working with any of the Java frameworks on Reactive Stack - Vert.x (strong preference) and optionally Spring Reactive, RxJava, Netty, or Akka
Hands on experience working with microservices / API's - Rest (required), SOAP, gRPC
Hands on experience with build tools Gradle (preferred), Maven (minimum)
Hands on experience using Unit Testing Tools - Junit (minimum), Cucumber or other equivalents
Hands on experience in high scale system design, performance tuning, problem diagnosis and resolution
Hands on experience working with git or equivalent source code management systems - resolve merge conflicts etc.
Good to have knowledge on Java Perf tooling - Analyzing heap dumps, Thread dumps, JConsole, JMC
Good to have knowledge on micro benchmarking - JMH harnesses
Good to have knowledge on messaging systems using Java client - Kafka, RabbitMQ etc.
The 4 pillars of documentation. You can use C4, PlantUML, draw.io, one of (markdown, asciidoc, rst), ADR (Architecture Decision Records) to express your ideas.
Optional: Familiarity with modern system development using Golang or Rust and understanding of Web Assembly (WASM)
QualificationsSalary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually bonus benefitsThe 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.We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
Competitive base salaries
Bonus incentives
6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
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
For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .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.US Job Seekers/Employees - Click here to view the “Know Your Rights” poster and the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.If the links do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters to access the three posters.Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.Job: TechnologyPrimary Location: US-Florida-SunriseSchedule Full-timeReq ID: 24011282
