American Express

Campus Graduate Masters Full-Time Engineer - 2027 Software Engineer II, Enterprise Technology Services- Phoenix, AZ

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2 months ago
Phoenix, AZ, USAEntry Level

Base Salary

$89k - $150k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Support the design, development, testing, maintenance, debugging, and production readiness of software applications, APIs, services, and technical components.
  • Write clean, readable, maintainable code and contribute to code reviews, unit testing, and integration testing.
  • Collaborate with product owners, engineers, analysts, and business partners to understand requirements and deliver customer-focused features.
  • Participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and other team activities.
  • Document technical decisions, code behavior, dependencies, configurations, and support procedures.
  • Help improve reliability, security, performance, accessibility, observability, and quality across software solutions.
  • Apply secure software development, privacy, risk, compliance, and escalation practices.

Requirements

  • Must earn a Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or another technical field before the full-time start date.
  • Requires coursework, academic projects, research, internships, open-source contributions, hackathons, or extracurricular experience involving software development.
  • Programming ability in one or more languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, C++, or similar.
  • Understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, debugging, testing, and problem solving.
  • Familiarity with APIs, microservices, cloud platforms, containerization, automated testing, monitoring, operational support concepts, and Git or similar version control tools.
  • Exposure to LLM integrations, prompt engineering and evaluation, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, AI agents, agentic workflows, or human-in-the-loop review.
  • Preferred candidates graduate between December 2026 and June 2027 and have foundational experience writing, testing, debugging, and documenting code.
  • Preferred exposure to backend, frontend, cloud, mobile, API, data, full-stack, AI-enabled applications, data pipelines, model inference endpoints, evaluation workflows, or cloud-based AI services.
  • Awareness of responsible AI practices including reliability, explainability, privacy, security, governance, bias mitigation, guardrails, and validation of AI-generated outputs.
  • Must be eligible to work in the United States; American Express will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salaries and bonus incentives are offered.
  • The retirement savings plan includes a 6% company match.
  • Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, financial coaching, and financial well-being support.
  • The role may be hybrid, onsite, or fully virtual depending on business needs and position requirements.
  • Employees receive 20+ weeks of paid parental leave for pregnancy, adoption, or surrogacy.
  • Employees may receive access to onsite wellness centers, confidential counseling through Healthy Minds, career development, and training opportunities.
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About American Express

10,000+ employees

American Express builds a global payments network and issues consumer, small-business, and corporate cards, plus merchant acquiring and travel services. Revenue comes from card fees, interest and lending, discount/merchant fees, and network services. Founded in 1850 and headquartered in New York City, it operates the Amex acceptance network worldwide and offers co-branded cards and membership rewards across millions of cardmembers and merchants; ticker NYSE: AXP.

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