Engineer I
American Express
You 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. 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.
We are building an energetic, high-performance team with a nimble and creative mindset to drive our technology and products. American Express (AXP) is a powerful brand, a great place to work and has unparalleled scale. Join us for an exciting opportunity in the Marketing Technology within American Express Technologies. This team working on creating products for enhancing marketing targeting and eligibility capabilities that drive American Express marketing campaigns. Being part of the team, you will get numerous opportunities to utilize and learn bigdata and GCP cloud technologies.
Job Responsibilities:
- Responsible for delivering the features or software functionality independently and reliably.
- Develop technical design documentation.
- Functions as core member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation.
- Participate in code reviews and automated testing.
- Helps other junior members of the team deliver.
- Demonstrates analytical thinking - recommends improvements, best practices and conducts experiments to prove/disprove them
- Provides continuous support for ongoing application availability.
- Learns, understands, participates fully in all team ceremonies, including work breakdown, estimation, and retrospectives.
- Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential, including substantiated ability to innovate and take pride in quickly deploying working software.
- High energy demonstrated, willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree Computer Science with 5+ years of overall software design and development experience.
- Experience with SQL, Adobe (AEP, CDP & AJO), React, CI/CD, Cucumber, Selenium
- Able to design reusable components and modules
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Working knowledge of data storage solutions like Big Query or Cloud SQL and data engineering tools like AirFlow or Cloud Workflows.
- Familiarity with Agile or other rapid application development methods.
- Hands on experience with one or more programming languages (JavaScript, Java, Python, Scala).
- Knowledge of various Shell Scripting tools
- Strong communication and analytical skills including effective presentation skills.
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
- 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.