Senior Software Engineer I in Burgess Hill

Hybrid work location available. 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 will 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.

Global Loyalty & Benefits is in the middle of an exciting transformation journey, and we need talented engineers who are willing to learn, collaborate, innovate, and adapt to emerging trends and customer demands. Our Loyalty platforms enable many of Amex's most critical customer differentiators including the flagship Membership Rewards program, and we are constantly seeking new ways to offer value to our customers and drive growth for the company. We are looking for an innovative, experienced, and talented senior software engineer to join our R42 Platform team. You will work closely with our product and development teams to develop new system capabilities at scale and optimize existing capabilities. As part of the Platform team, you will be responsible for the core components that make up our modern microservice platform, driving performance and resiliency, as we scale to take over our classic applications.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading projects, designing system solutions, developing custom applications, and modifying existing applications to meet distinct and changing business requirements.
• Handle coding, debugging, and documentation, as well working closely with other team domains.
• Provide post implementation and ongoing production support.
• Develop and design software applications, translating user needs into system architecture.
• Assess and validate application performance and integration of component systems and provide process flow diagrams.
• Test the engineering resilience of software and automation tools.
• Identify innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our loyalty platform.
• Work on the core components of our modern loyalty platform which supports the key element of connecting with our customers and their interaction with American Express.
• Partner with other development teams, testing and quality, and production support, to meet implementation dates and allow smooth transition throughout the development life-cycle.
• Build and execute against a strategy and roadmap focused on moving from monolithic, tightly coupled, batch-based legacy platforms to a loosely coupled, event-driven, microservices-based architecture to meet our long-term business goals.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field followed by 5+ years of experience in a modern development stack (Golang preferred).
• Experience in application design, software development, and testing, preferably in an Agile environment.
• Experience working with Git on small to medium sized teams.
• Experience with open-source frameworks is a plus especially maintaining or contributing to open-source projects.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, Couchbase, or Cassandra.
• Experience designing and developing REST APIs for high volume clients.
• Experience with continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Gitlab CI, GitHub Actions) a plus.
• Experience with automated build and test frameworks a plus.
• A proven hunger to learn new technologies and translate them into working software.
• Experience with container and container orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.), a plus.
• Strong ability to develop unique, outside the box ideas.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving/quantitative skills.
• Willing to take risks, experiment, and share fresh perspectives.
• Aptitude for learning and applying programming concepts.
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of payments industry.
• Experience with coding skills across a variety of distributed technologies.
• Experience with a broad range of software languages and payments technologies.
• Multiple years developing applications in Golang.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

Considerations for Sponsorship

Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.

Benefits

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.
• 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.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.