Senior Software Engineer I
American Express20 hours ago
Base Salary
$123k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate scalable, resilient, highly available cloud-native applications and services using Java, Vert.x, Node.js, React, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift.
- Deliver full-stack infrastructure portal capabilities across backend services, REST APIs, integrations, and modern web experiences.
- Build distributed-system capabilities including caching, search, resource management, job execution, asynchronous processing, and cluster management.
- Integrate enterprise authentication and authorization with platforms such as Okta and Active Directory.
- Implement logging, monitoring, diagnostics, and troubleshooting using Splunk and the ELK stack.
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools and develop GPT-based solutions and engineering assistants.
- Deploy and operate Linux-based services, including workloads running on virtualized environments when they cannot be containerized.
- Own disaster recovery readiness, including planning, documentation, coordination, and annual testing.
- Influence architecture and engineering standards, conduct code and design reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate across product, infrastructure, security, architecture, and engineering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong hands-on Java and modern full-stack development expertise.
- Experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise-scale applications in complex, highly available production environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java and Vert.x, plus working knowledge of Node.js, React, and modern web application frameworks.
- Strong computer science fundamentals covering data structures, algorithms, concurrency, asynchronous programming, and implementation across multiple programming languages.
- Deep understanding of REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, resiliency, fault tolerance, service discovery, circuit breakers, asynchronous processing, and horizontal scalability.
- Experience developing and deploying cloud-native applications on Kubernetes-based platforms.
- Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, and automated build, test, security, deployment, and release pipelines.
- Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools including GitHub Copilot, Devin, and ChatGPT.
- Working knowledge of Linux operating systems, system administration, troubleshooting, networking, process management, and virtualized and containerized environments.
- Understanding of application security and enterprise authentication and authorization patterns, including identity and access management integrations.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, technical leadership, mentorship, design review, and code review capabilities.
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries and bonus incentives.
- 6% company match on the retirement savings plan, financial coaching, and financial well-being support.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits.
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite, or virtual arrangements depending on role and business needs.
- 20+ weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, including pregnancy, adoption, or surrogacy.
- Access to onsite wellness centers and confidential counseling through the Healthy Minds program.
- Career development and training opportunities.
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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.