Data engineer

American Express is looking for energetic, high-performing, and highly skilled Engineers to help shape our technology and product roadmap.

You will be part of the fast-paced, entrepreneurial Enterprise focused on delivering the next generation data engineering solutions.

The team will be responsible for experience for our customers by delivering world-class innovative solutions leveraging best in class distributed systems techniques, processing data for real time analytics , to provide highly personalized experience to Marketing partners and to drive profitable growth for the organization.

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.

Centric to it is Big Data and batch / real-time analytical solutions leveraging transformational technologies to deliver innovative solutions across multiple business units.

Key Responsibilities :

• 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


• Function as an active 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


• Explores new automation techniques to refine the agility, speed and quality of engineering initiatives and efforts


• Defines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications provided. Takes part in reviews of own work and handles work efficiently.

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.

Skills & Qualifications :

Must Have :

• 3 to 5 years of work experience in software design and implementation using Java.


• 2+ years of experience with React, Redux,


• 3+ Experience in Java, Spring / Spring boot


• Hands on experience of Core Java concepts including Collection, multithreading, Java 11+ features


• Hands on experience in building REST APIs


• Experience in RDBMS and NoSQL databases.


• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Good to Have :

• Hands on experience of using UI Visualization library


• Experience in Microservices


• Experience working in JavaScript and able to demonstrate good JavaScript knowledge.


• Able to demonstrate good web fundamentals & knowledge of DOM


• Experience writing adaptive and responsive UI applications


• Experience with TDD, BDD and unit testing.


• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI / CD) environment and their frameworks



• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Salary Range : to 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.

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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Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

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.

Last updated : 2022-12-02