Application Developer

Developers/Programmers (Information & Communication Technology)

Full time

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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. Amex 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

How will you make an impact in this role?

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible - and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day.

We are seeking talented and motivated Engineers to join our team to play a key role in driving application support and runtime operations for a suite of applications aligned to the customer experiences. The ideal candidate demonstrates strong technical experience and has passion for the reliability and performance of critical business applications. Candidate is responsible to provide technical consultation and strategic recommendations and quickly assess and remediate complex platform availability issues. This is an opportunity to utilize strong technical skills and aptitude to exceed customer experience and expectations while using American Express Products and Services.

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on support for the runtime operation of our applications, ensuring high availability and performance, drive Mean Time to Restore service level targets.
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis efforts to ensure the stability and resilience of the applications.
• Collaborate with software engineering and infrastructure teams to troubleshoot and resolve runtime issues, including performance bottlenecks, scalability challenges, and system failures.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to proactively identify and address potential runtime issues.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand the application architecture and provide input on runtime and operational requirements early in the software development lifecycle.
• Support and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tools, e.g., Jenkins, etc.
• Automate deployments in test or production environments using standard practices.
• Explore new automation techniques to refine the agility, speed and quality of engineering initiatives and efforts.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of runtime automation and tooling to streamline operational processes, improve efficiency, and reduce toil.
• Drive automation and ensure automated test scripts are completed for new features.
• Manage time effectively and work independently and as part of a team.
• Mentor peers and demonstrate a passion for continuous learning environment for the team.
• Good attitude, communication, willingness to learn and collaborate.
• Bring a culture of innovation, ideas, and continuous improvement.
• Challenge status quo, demonstrate risk taking, and implement creative ideas.

Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical discipline.
• Work experience in software engineering, app support, infrastructure operations, or runtime engineering.
• A working understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and containerization technologies, with experience in supporting critical business applications being a plus.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools, and incident management best practices, to ensure reliability and performance of applications in a production environment.
• Solid programming and scripting skills, with hands-on experience to automate operational tasks using tools such as Java/Python, Bash, Selenium, Linux, and Ansible.
• Experience in designing and developing mission-critical highly available enterprise applications and Java applications performance tuning.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities, focused on understanding and resolving runtime issues quickly.
• Practical experience with implementation of system integration solutions, such as APIs and Data integration layers (Batch & Real-Time).
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environment and platforms, such as GIT, Maven, and Jenkins.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to explain concepts to product managers and business partners and translate technical terms to meet business needs.
• Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional environment.
• Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as DB2, Redis, Postgres, Couchbase etc.
• Experience in JCL, COBOL & DB2 is preferred.
• Exposure to scheduling tools (Control-M or similar), IBM mainframe utilities, SORT utilities, and mainframe performance products (BMC’s Apptune or similar) is preferred.
• Workplace Flexibility: Full time. Must be amenable to follow a hybrid work arrangement (onsite and work from home).
• Work From Home Requirements:
  
  • Must have at least 25 mbps internet connection plan/speed.
  • Must have a private & quiet area to work at home.
• American Express offers a fantastic and diverse working environment. High performance is rewarded with target-driven incentives.

This role is not open to visa sponsorship according to business requirements.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being.

Benefits include:

• Support for financial well-being and retirement.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location).
• Flexible work arrangements and schedules with hybrid and virtual options with Amex Flex.
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location).
• 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.

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly striving to uphold our powerful backing promise to our customers and each other every day.