Software Engineer III
American Express2 days ago
Gurgaon, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure software applications.
- Develop reusable, maintainable code and participate in technical design discussions and architecture reviews.
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed applications.
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, QA engineers, and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Perform code reviews and follow coding standards and security best practices.
- Resolve complex technical issues, performance bottlenecks, and production defects.
- Implement automated unit, integration, and functional testing.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and DevOps practices.
- Monitor application performance, reliability, and operational health.
- Own features and deliverables through development and production deployment.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Typically 5–8 years of relevant software development experience.
- Strong programming experience in Java, Python, JavaScript, or other object-oriented languages.
- Hands-on experience with Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices architecture.
- Understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, design patterns, distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and messaging technologies.
- Experience with relational or NoSQL databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Experience with Git, Maven, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, or equivalent tools.
- Knowledge of automated testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito.
- Understanding of application security, authentication, authorization, and secure coding practices.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Preferred qualifications include banking, payments, or financial services experience; high-volume transaction processing; cloud-native application development; scalability, resilience, observability, and performance optimization; event-driven architecture; distributed messaging; and mentoring junior developers.
- Strong analytical, debugging, troubleshooting, communication, collaboration, independence, and ownership skills.
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries and bonus incentives.
- Financial well-being and retirement support.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits depending on location.
- Flexible hybrid, onsite, or virtual working arrangements depending on role and business need.
- Paid parental leave depending on location.
- Access to onsite wellness centers and confidential counseling support.
- Career development and training opportunities.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureDockerGitGoogle CloudJavaJavaScriptJenkinsJUnitKubernetesMavenMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLPythonSpring Boot
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About American Express
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.