Senior Software Engineer I
American Express15 hours ago
Phoenix, AZ, USASenior
Base Salary
$123k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable software applications and systems for card transaction platforms.
- Write code and automated unit tests while working with API specifications and automation.
- Mentor junior software engineers and provide technical guidance on engineering practices and coding standards.
- Monitor software performance, analyze technical challenges, and implement improvements.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, business, and other cross-functional teams to align technology initiatives and support integration and deployment.
- Provide technical leadership and help expand existing and new software capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or comparable experience; an advanced degree is preferred.
- At least 10 years of experience using Java, React, Vert.x, Spring, Spark, Postgres, RESTful APIs, Redis, Kafka, and cloud-native application development.
- Experience with application architecture and design, software development, testing, distributed systems, algorithms, NoSQL, and relational databases.
- Experience designing and building AI-powered and agentic AI solutions, including LLM applications, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt engineering, orchestration frameworks, vector databases, and AI service integrations.
- Strong engineering, leadership, collaboration, automation testing, documentation, and cross-functional partnership skills.
- Experience with Agile software development practices such as Scrum, Kanban, iterations, and user stories.
- Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required.
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 hybrid, onsite, or virtual working arrangements depending on role and business need.
- More than 20 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents.
- Access to onsite wellness centers and confidential counseling through the Healthy Minds program.
- Career development and training opportunities.
Tech Stack
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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.