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DescriptionYou Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back. At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible — and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day.Building strong relationships with our Customers is at the heart of our success at American Express. American Express is modernizing at a rapid pace, and you will be part of a growing team of engineers and data professionals focused on providing world-class data integration solutions that underpin this transformation.We are looking for a Senior Engineer to shape and drive channel and business services integrations at scale. As a Senior Engineer, you will provide expertise and direction for GraphQL-based design and facilitate adoption across different customer facing channels. You will shape the Graph Data model, define schema contracts and build resolvers. You will lead architecture/performance improvements, defining best practices, building reusable components and also socialize them with other teams. You will take pride in the operational excellence of the GraphQL API and overall business logic tier. You will get to work closely with channel partners, talented product owners, architects and engineers to define and execute the enterprise vision and roadmap. Our data needs to be discovered easily, connected accurately and consumed safely.Here’s more of what you will get to do:Cross-functional point of contact for technical questions with other Tech Leads and Product Managers
Design access paths, query patterns and develop schema first domain models, resolvers and business functions.
Create solutions and/or frameworks to make other engineers and architects better and faster.
Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies/best practices to maximize development efficiency.
Dedicated to optimizing the performance and scalability of the architecture and infrastructure as the business services continue to grow.
Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.
Apply your deep knowledge and experience designing and implementing high-performance architectures that are business focused, semantically rich, adaptable, and scalable.
Provide mentorship and technical direction to team members on a day-to-day basis. Responsible for the operational excellence of the team.
As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes usan essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talentedengineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, andyou make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. Amexoffers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages youto back the broader engineering community through open source. And because weunderstand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give youdedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technologyon #TeamAmex.QualificationsYou’ll thrive in this role if you have:
1-2 years of experience architecting, implementing, and maintaining GraphQL for multiple instances in Production. 3 years of overall technology industry experience.
Experience building adoption of GraphQL as a new technology for mission-critical applications.
Excellent knowledge of Data modeling and Data Structures/Algorithms
Expertise architecting and implementing multiple GraphQL API based services from the ground up with schema first omni channel and global domain models.
Experience with alerting and monitoring tools
Familiar with Express suite /Apollo Client/Relay
Strong coding skills in Java, Nodejs, or other modern programming languages
Be comfortable designing stateless or stateful services on top of cloud infrastructure
Experience with Agile development
Above all, you thrive in a culture that values collaboration, mentorship, and learning
BS or MS in Computer Science or related discipline
Eligible to work in the United States
Helpful, but not required:Prior proven experience of being a technical lead of a team of 4 members
Scrum experience GitHub repo with your own code and schema design we can view
Experience collaborating with third-party providers on an as-needed basis and evaluate/debug/implement 3rd party SDKs.
React Native/Native app development experience
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.If the role you are applying for is designated as hybrid or onsite, you will be required to demonstrate that you have completed your primary COVID-19 vaccination series (i.e., 2 doses for Moderna/Pfizer and 1 dose for J&J) in order to work in or visit any of our offices. This requirement is subject to legally required accommodations.Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.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.Job: TechnologyPrimary Location: United StatesReq ID: 22022776
