Senior Backend Software Engineer-Digital Banking, Payments

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 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.

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 #TeamAmex.

The Bill Payment platform provides an exciting opportunity to solve complex challenges and to build novel technology to power the next generation of Amex financial products.

We are a team of entrepreneurial disruptors with a great FinTech Engineering culture at the forefront of innovation in the industry.

We are building amazing GraphQL and APIs, intelligent payment routing decision engines, an ISO20022 framework, AI / ML driven data pipelines, and fluid integrators with Global Payment Infrastructure and the banking system.

Our team is responsible for mission critical customer journeys, including Pay your Amex Bill, Plan your Payment and Get a Loan.

Our goal is to decouple our assets, such as our ACH engine and bank validation, and make it easy for others in the company to build world class customer experiences.

We are looking for Engineers that are passionate about building invincible payments systems, utilizingworkflow orchestrators such as Temporal, Cadence and Conductor.

Responsibilities :

• Design and contribute to workflow implementations.
• Champion workflow orchestration best practices
• Build software as part of a nimble agile Team where you have every opportunity to make an impact on the bottom line and contribute to the architecture.
• Ensure our infrastructure is safely extensible, scalable, reliable and meets SLAs for both external and internal users.
• Ensure our solutions are testable, intuitive, and easy to maintain.
• Use state of the art tools for remote collaboration and developer happiness, i.e., IntelliJ CodeWithMe and Tuple
• Participate in design and code reviews for key components and cross Enterprise initiatives.

Qualifications :

• Experience in backend reactive programming languages : Java 8+ and / or Kotlin.
• Proven track record developing lightweight reactive microservices : Vert.x, Quarkus, Micronaut or Spring Boot.
• Deep understanding of event driven architecture and messaging : Kafka, webhooks, asynchronous API design.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, or equivalent relational databases.
• Have experience working as an individual contributor as part of a cross functional agile team. Experience in FinTech is a massive plus.
• Have proven experience in supporting mission critical platforms with high levels of availability and service continuity.
• Have solid experience in cloud-based architecture and distributed systems.
• Have exceptional written and communication skills and can express dissenting opinions constructively.
• Self-directed and able to work in an ambiguous environment through the innovation process.
• Care about learning and being open minded about switching approaches and experimenting.
• Value collaboration and put the Team interests always above self.

Salary Range : $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The 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
30+ days ago