Sr Software Engineer II - Enterprise Architecture
American Express5 days ago
Base Salary
$123k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deliver scalable full-stack software solutions using Java and Python.
- Lead the architecture and implementation of distributed systems for performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Own feature delivery from design and development through deployment, monitoring, and production support.
- Drive coding standards, testing, documentation, continuous delivery, and developer productivity improvements.
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with architects, product managers, and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Build RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems with strong service contracts and backward compatibility.
- Identify bottlenecks, debug complex issues, and drive root-cause analysis and durable fixes.
- Design for scalability, resilience, and observability, including monitoring, logging, and alerting.
- Contribute to containerization, infrastructure-as-code, auto-scaling, and cloud-native adoption.
- Influence technical direction and deliver high-impact outcomes aligned with organizational goals.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong Java expertise and working knowledge of Python for backend or data-driven applications.
- Deep experience with Java ecosystems and frameworks such as Spring and Spring Boot.
- Proven full-stack development experience with backend services and modern frontend frameworks such as React or Angular.
- Experience building RESTful APIs, microservices architectures, and service-to-service integrations.
- Understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, scalability, and performance optimization.
- Hands-on experience with relational or NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, DynamoDB, or MongoDB.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code tools, messaging platforms, streaming platforms, and cloud environments.
- Experience generating test data and developing and executing unit tests.
- Experience with API design standards, OpenAPI/Swagger, versioning, and contract-driven development.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent practical experience; an advanced degree is a plus.
- Preferred: basic understanding of AI/ML, generative AI, LLMs, prompt engineering, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
Benefits
- 6% company match on the retirement savings plan.
- Free financial coaching and financial well-being support.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits.
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite, or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need.
- 20+ weeks of paid parental leave for all parents for pregnancy, adoption, or surrogacy.
- Access to global onsite wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors, depending on location.
- Free confidential counseling through the Healthy Minds program.
- Career development and training opportunities.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBAngularApache CassandraApache KafkaAWSAzureDockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJenkinsKubernetesMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLPythonRabbitMQReactSpring BootTerraform
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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.