Software Engineer 1
American Express
Software Engineer 1
American Express
Issues credit cards and runs a payment network
We're looking for an enthusiastic, diligent Java Software Engineer to work on the global Loyalty and Benefits platform in American Express – 'R42'. The candidate should have excellent soft skills, strong technical ability with an extensive passion to learn.
R42 is a modern microservice-based Loyalty and Benefits platform, designed to be able to handle all aspects of the Loyalty and Benefits customer experience, globally. Built using modern tools such as Golang, Kafka and Docker, there is ample opportunity to drive innovation and grow knowledge and skills as an Engineer.
As a Software Engineer on an R42 Scrum team, you will be building and enhancing features in the Rewards domain. You will also coordinate and work with other Engineers across the platform to share knowledge and principals.
Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience.
Experience in professional software development.
Solid understanding of test-driven development, including unit, component, functional, system integration and regression tests.
Knowledge of software engineering methodology (Agile, incl Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Waterfall)
Knowledge of any or all of the following technologies is desired: SpringBoot, Kafka, Postgres,, Git, Docker, GraphQL
Experienced in continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD) and continuous testing (CT), including tools such as Jenkins, Rally and/or JIRA and version control such as GIT or SVN
Demonstrable experience in at least one back-end type safe programming language (Java or Golang preferred)
Comfortable/experienced with back-end micro-service architecture and communication, specifically REST and asynchronous messaging services (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ etc.)
Comfortable/experience within a Scrum framework working with as part of a team to deliver business functions and customer journeys that are tested and automated throughout the CICD pipeline to production
Issues credit cards and runs a payment network
American Express issues credit and pay-in-full charge cards to consumers and businesses, and unlike most card issuers it also runs the payment network its cards use. Its Travelers Cheque, launched in 1891, made carrying money abroad safer, and in 1959 it became the first major issuer of plastic cards. Cardholders earn points toward flights and hotels plus perks such as airport lounges, while companies use its corporate cards for employee travel and expenses. American Express earns a fee from merchants on each purchase, plus annual fees and interest on balances cardholders carry. Henry Wells and William Fargo, who later started Wells Fargo, co-founded it in 1850 as a freight delivery business; it is based in New York City.
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