Job Information
American Express Engineer in Phoenix, Arizona
Description
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 Team Amex 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 on #TeamAmex.
The Site Reliability Engineering and Application Support (SRE & AS) is a mission critical organization that supports a large porting of the critical applications across Amex. As part of the SRE & AS Tools and Practices organization, you will be responsible for developing and enhancing tools used across the organization to drive higher availability and resiliency while creating efficiencies.
Role and Responsibilities
You will be responsible for developing and supporting software solution that will enable the broader SRE/AS organization. This would include solutions such as:
Automation and efficiency solutions
Creating solutions to close gaps in processes
Developing new features based on organizational needs
Helping to define and educate the organization on standards and best practices.
Increasing observability and open telemetry
Minimum Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required.
3 years of software development experience in a professional environment such as:
Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and automated testing.
Thorough understanding of XML, JSON, web services technologies, and data structure fundamentals, with experience in multi-threaded programming.
Wide breath of engineering experience as Full Stack Engineer in technologies like Java, J2EE, Spring, JavaScript, React, Python, Micro Services and more to deliver product capabilities.
RESTful API development experience.
Experience with Observability and Open Telemetry tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, and ELF.
Experience with continuous integration/deployment (Git, Jenkins, etc).
Familiar with Open Source and cloud technologies.
High-performing Behaviors
Recognizes opportunities to adopt innovative technologies to enable business capabilities
Keeps up-to-date on current research and technology in the industry
Recognizes the importance of collaboration to achieve objectives
Clearly communicates ideas and concepts to others
Leads work effectively and acts on own initiative without being prompted
Provides feedback to team members in code reviews
Influences team members with creative changes and continuous improvements
Explores new automation techniques to refine the agility, speed and quality of engineering initiatives and efforts
Qualifications
Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 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 working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
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 .
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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Job: Technology
Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix
Other Locations: US-Florida-Sunrise
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 24011831