Experienced Full Stack Backend Software Engineer – Web & Cloud Application Development for Global Loyalty & Benefits Platforms

About Us

At American Express, we're committed to backing our customers, communities, and each other. As a global and diverse community of colleagues, we strive to create a career journey that's unique and meaningful to each individual. Our company values are built on the powerful backing promise to provide the world's best customer experience every day, with integrity, and in an environment where everyone feels seen, heard, and belongs.

Join Our Team

We're looking for an experienced Full Stack Backend Software Engineer to join our Global Loyalty & Benefits team. As a key member of our tech team, you'll have the opportunity to architect, code, and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers' digital lives. You'll work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, and inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems.

About the Role

This is a remote work opportunity, and we're looking for someone who is self-motivated, disciplined, and able to work effectively in a virtual team environment. As a Backend Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing system solutions, developing custom applications, and modifying existing applications to meet distinct and changing business requirements. You'll work closely with our SRE team, provide post-implementation and ongoing production support, and be challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design system solutions, develop custom applications, and modify existing applications to meet distinct and changing business requirements.
• Develop and design software applications, translating user needs into system architecture, assessing and validating application performance, and providing process flow diagrams.
• Test the engineering resilience of software and automation tools, and identify innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers.
• Work closely with our SRE team, provide post-implementation and ongoing production support, and partner with other development teams, testing and quality, and production support to meet implementation dates and allow smooth transition throughout the development life-cycle.
• Build and execute against a strategy and roadmap focused on moving from monolithic, tightly coupled, batch-based legacy platforms to a loosely coupled, event-driven, microservices-based architecture to meet our long-term business goals.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, followed by 4+ years of experience in a modern development stack, including Golang, Kafka, and REST API.
• Experience in application design, software development, and testing in an Agile environment.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, Couchbase, or Cassandra.
• Experience designing and developing REST APIs for high-volume clients.
• Experience with continuous integration tools, such as Jenkins or Gitlab CI.
• A proven hunger to learn new technologies and translate them into working software.
• Experience with container and container orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools, such as JIRA and Confluence.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and quantitative skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of the payments industry.
• Experience with coding skills across a variety of distributed technologies.
• Experience with open-source frameworks, especially maintaining or contributing to open-source projects.
• Experience with a broad range of software languages and payments technologies.

What We Offer

We offer a competitive salary range of $85,000 to $150,000 annually, plus bonus and benefits. Our benefits package includes:

• Competitive base salaries.
• Bonus incentives.
• 6% Company Match on 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 paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption, or surrogacy.
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location).
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program.
• Career development and training opportunities.

Why Join Us?

We're an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally, and offer a range of benefits and programs to support their holistic well-being.

How to Apply

If this role sounds like a perfect fit, don't hesitate. Apply today and let's build the future together. Click on the link below to apply: