Engineer I

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

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 American Express grows, our global technology infrastructure grows.  Our organization’s goal is to help engineers rapidly deploy new applications, so that the company can bring products to market quickly with superior economics and provide the best possible experience to our customers around the world.

Some of the problems we'll work on include:

- Improving time to business value for developers, by reducing the amount of time it takes to provision and deploy applications
- Defining the developer experience for Amex applications of the future
- Ensuring developers are easily able to provision infrastructure that is secure and compliant by default

As a Software Engineer in our group, you will:

- Scope technical projects and break them down into user stories and tasks within an engineering team
- Directly contribute to the design and coding of our software systems, serving as a role model for how great software is built at Amex
- Build systems that are secure, reliable, scalable, and extensible
- Make sound technical decisions utilizing the advice of teammates and contribute to technical conversations with other engineering teams
- Mentor graduates, interns, and apprentices - assist them with projects that develop their skills

You may be a fit if:

- You have at least 3 years of experience working in a professional environment as a software engineer
- You have contributed to the design and build of cloud-native applications written in Java or Go
- You have done “DevOps” work, such as building CI/CD pipelines or setting up cloud hosting environments
- You have worked with Infrastructure As Code tooling, for example Terraform
- You have worked with policy enforcement solutions, such as Sentinel or Gatekeeper
- You have some experience mentoring more junior engineers, helping them to succeed and grow in their roles
- You build effective work relationships, giving and receiving constructive feedback, and your colleagues at all levels and across all teams trust you

Technologies we use at Amex include:

- Go and Java are our primary server languages, with Kotlin and TypeScript starting to gain traction, and JavaScript and Python used in niche situations
- Our browser applications are based on React
- Code lives in GitHub Enterprise and flows to production through a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions
- Code runs in Kubernetes-managed Docker containers hosted in a mix of private and public clouds
- Infrastructure is managed with Terraform
- Other key tech includes GraphQL, gRPC, Kafka, Postgres, Couchbase, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redis, OpenTracing, Jaeger, Prometheus, and Grafana

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 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 you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• 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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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.

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