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.

Focus:

Contributes to design, development, troubleshooting, debugging, evaluating, modifying, deploying, and documenting software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.

Organizational Context:

Starter-level hire, generally a recent college graduate. Member of a product engineering or delivery and integration team reporting to a Senior Engineer, Engineering Director or Director Product Delivery & Integration.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Beginner level ability in software development, such coding assignments

• Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)

• Participate in code reviews and automated testing

• Debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation

• Support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments

• Automate deployments in test or production environments

• Automatically scale applications based on demand projections

Range of Impact/Influence:

• Accountable for team completing work you’re leading and work you are doing as agreed upon

• Accountable to team for delivery of quality work

You won’t just shape the world of software. You’ll shape the world of life, work and play. Our Software Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day. Today, innovative ideas, insight and new perspectives are at the core of how we create a more powerful, personal and fulfilling experience for all our customers. So if you’re interested in a career creating breakthrough software and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further. You won’t just keep up, you’ll break new ground. There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express. Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing: - Taking your place as a core member of an agile team driving the latest development practices - Writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation - Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies -

Education & Experience:

Up to 2 years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:

• Understanding of Agile or other rapid application development methods

• Exposure to design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate

• Exposure to methods relating to application design, software development, and automated testing

• General Knowledge of distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases

• Understanding of object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required

High Performance Behaviors:

• Learns and applies new technologies and techniques

• Demonstrates good analytical skills

• Recognizes the importance of collaboration to achieve objectives

• Clearly communicates ideas and concepts to others

• Manages assigned tasks effectively; acts on own initiative without being prompted

Knowledge/Skills:

• Able to understand and use complex data structures and associated components

• Designs, codes, tests, maintains, and documents applications

• Takes part in reviews of own work and reviews of colleagues' work

• Defines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications provided

• Has understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)

• Familiar with infrastructure technologies and components

Technology Skills You'll Use Every Day:

• Adaptive Communication

• Agile Practices

• Industry and Company Knowledge

• Change Management

• Technical Acumen

• Technology Industry Trends

Game Changers:

• Flexibility

• Collaboration & Partnership

• Continuous Improvement

• Courage

• Curiosity

• Resourcefulness

• Servant Leadership

• Tenacity

Role/Strengths You’ll Need:

Technical

• Emerging Technologies

• Programming/Software Development

• Systems Design

• Testing

Functional

• Data Management

• Release and Deployment

• User Experience Evaluation and Analysis

Leadership

• Analytical Thinking

• Executive Presence

Business

• Business Product Knowledge

• Problem Solving

Salary Range: $70,000.00 to $135,000.00 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 work arrangements and schedules with hybrid and virtual options with Amex Flex

• 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.

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.

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.

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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