Software Engineer, Servicing Engineering

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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'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.

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

How will you make an impact in this role?

You’ll be working in a fast-paced environment as part of the Servicing Engineering team supporting platforms for American Express customers. You should be familiar with modern software development methodologies and be able to dive deep and rapidly iterate on ideas despite ambiguity.

• Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Function as member of a software engineering team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation).
• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.
• Participate in code reviews and automated testing.
• Debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation.
• Enable the development, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
• Automate deployments in test or production environments.
• Automatically scale applications based on demand.
  
  

Education & Experience

• Up to 4 years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:
• Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods.
• Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and as appropriate.
• Hands-on experience with application design, software development, and automated testing.
• Exposure to distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
• Experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages.
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related experience required.
• Able to understand and use advanced data structures and associated components.
• Designs, codes, tests, maintains, and documents application components.
• Takes part in reviews of own work and reviews of colleagues' work.
• Defines test conditions based on the functional and non-functional requirements provided.
  

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.

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
• 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
  
  

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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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.