Senior Engineer, Risk Decision Technology
American Express
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How will you make an impact in this role?
American Express is looking for a hands-on Software Engineer in the Risk Decision Technologies (RDT) organization for the Data Engineering team. The RDT team is responsible for cross-domain, configurable platforms to enable best-in-class risk management and American Express growth with strong governance. The Data Engineering team is embarking on a journey to build Next-gen data platform to support critical Risk Business functions like payments authorization, new account fulfilment, credit collections and underwriting risk.
Risk Data Management (RDM) platform is critical for Authorization Modernization Program (AMP) and powers the risk assessment engine with large volumes of data. The platform also includes cloud native applications to support low latency, scalable and modular architecture.
This role of an Engineer will be an integral part of a team that designs and builds large-scale, cloud-native applications and drive us closer to the vision of a robust Risk data platform.
As a Software Engineer, you will:
- Function as a member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development and test practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation.
- Have primary focus (80%+) on writing quality code, perform unit testing, test automation, quality assurance & automation testing in ongoing sprints.
- Build new micro-services that help manages our rapidly growing data hub.
- Improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability of our data pipelines.
- Work on cross-functional initiatives and collaborate with Engineers across organizations.
- Build CICD pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
- Build automation for application changes and deployment for faster time to market Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
- Perform ongoing refactoring of code, quality assurance and testing, applying best practice methodologies and processes.
- Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies & ideas in development / test area.
- Provide continuous support for ongoing application availability
- Collaborate/influence within and across teams to create successes with an innovative mindset and challenge the status quo.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electronics, or other related field (or has equivalent work experience).
- 10+ years of experience in software development and quality assurance.
- 5+ years of experience in building large scale distributed applications with object-oriented design using java related stack.
- Expertise in programming knowledge in Java - Solid understanding of data structures and common algorithms, Netty, gRPC and Oracle
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficient in identifying and applying software design patterns.
- Experience with web services and API development on enterprise platforms.
- Experience with automated release management using Maven, Salt, Git, Jenkins.
- Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.
- Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential.
- Good knowledge of REST API development and database technologies will be a plus.
- Experience with Docker/Openshift based deployment is a plus.
- Java Certification is a plus.
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.
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- 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
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