Software Engineer II

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared 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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

American Express is looking for a hands-on Software Engineer II in the Risk Decision Technology (RDT) organization for the Authorization Modernization Program (AMP) 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 AMP team is embarking on a journey to modernize and build next-gen authorization platform. This role of Engineer will be an integral part of a team that designs and builds large-scale, high-transaction, cloud-native applications and drive us closer to the vision of a modernized authorizations platform. As an 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 and test automation in ongoing sprints
• Build new micro-services and web services that help run fraud risk assessment for customer transactions
• Improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability of our data pipelines
• Work on multi-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
• Develop 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-in-class methodologies and processes
• Find 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 attitude and challenge the status quo

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

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 :

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.

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