Senior Software Engineer II

About American Express

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. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The @Work suite of products helps our clients and servicing group manage Corporate Card programs more efficiently online. From performing everyday administrative tasks and account maintenance, to accessing reports and utilizing reconciliation solutions, @Work enables fast, efficient and effective program management resulting in time and cost savings for our clients.

In this role, you will oversee all technical aspects of our authorization layer that powers not only the global @Work application but also over 70+ mission critical servicing applications. The successful candidate will focus on implementing our Point of Arrival (POA) authorization layer and delivery of features and enhancements for the entire global registration portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Supervises and mentors Software Engineers and cross-functional team of colleagues in specific tasks or projects, fostering their professional growth and ensuring adherence to best practices.
• Provides mentorship and technical leadership to junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Leads the entire lifecycle of software applications and systems, ensuring high-quality delivery from inception to deployment.
• Directs the technical aspects of projects, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Reviews code for accuracy, quality, and adherence to best practices, offering constructive feedback.
• Establishes and enforces coding standards, development methodologies, and best practices within the team.
• Identifies and resolves performance bottlenecks, ensuring optimal application performance.
• Facilitates collaboration with cross-functional teams to support changes and implementations, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
• Collaborates and co-creates effectively with teams in product and the business to align technology initiatives with business objectives.

Required Skills & Experience

• Software engineering and development experience or a related job.
• Expertise in application design, software development, and automated testing.
• Experience in object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages.
• Experience in distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
• Experience in Agile software development methodologies and practices such as Scrum/Kanban, iterations, user stories.
• Experience in automation testing and documentation (i.e., automated, functional, and performance).

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and/or comparable experience; advanced degree preferred.
• Knowledge of distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, NoSQL, and relational databases.
• Knowledge of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s).

Benefits

American Express offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your holistic well-being. This includes competitive base salaries, bonus incentives, a 6% company match on retirement savings, free financial coaching, and robust medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits. You'll also benefit from a flexible working model (hybrid, onsite, or virtual), generous paid parental leave (20+ weeks), access to global on-site wellness centers, and free confidential counseling through the Healthy Minds program. Career development and training opportunities are also abundant.

Key skills/competency

• Software Engineering
• Distributed Systems
• Application Architecture
• Object-Oriented Design
• Agile Methodologies
• Technical Leadership
• Performance Optimization
• Automated Testing
• Relational Databases
• NoSQL Databases