American Express

Senior Engineer II

Posted On

May 27, 2025

Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

June 29, 2025

Job Description

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. Amex offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

· Deep understanding of the Product / Technology Platform’s underlying tech stack and its core components

· Responsible for the applications architecture / technical design & build, work/coordinate with other team’s architect, engineers, and vendors as necessary

· Strong systems integration architecture skills and a high degree of technical expertise, ranging across several technologies with a proven track record of turning new technologies into business solutions

· Experience managing in a fast paced, complex and dynamic global environment.

· External technology contributions (patents, noteworthy Open-Source attributions, publications, etc.)

· Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels across functions, from both technical and non-technical perspectives

· Proficient managerial skills as required to operate a large organization, including budgeting, resource planning, staff management, etc.

· Able to define, influence and deliver software solutions against strategic plans that promote Company Platform objectives

· Outstanding influential and collaboration skills; ability to drive consensus and tangible outcomes, demonstrated by breaking down silos and fostering cross communication process

· Technical expertise related to the core components of the Technology Platform’s tech stack, as well as delivery optimization techniques in a ‘total dev’ continuous delivery environment

· Expert-level relevant hands-on engineering skills across a broad range of technologies, including deep expertise in the construction of enterprise-grade APIs and Services using state-of-the-art techniques (Java, Big Data Technologies, Apache Flink, Microservices, APIs, JSON, XML, REST etc.) that can be readily consumed through a self-service implementation model (full SDK, test stubs, test data, etc.)

· Able to manage multiple priorities and rapidly guide the organization through change moments

· Ability to manage large-scale applications in terms of performance, production assurance, capacity planning and threat mitigation

· Demonstrate accountability, leading people with passion, enthusiasm, loyalty and integrity. Owns and leads HR processes such as employee engagement, performance reviews, talent development, etc.

· Performing ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast track concepts, and delivering continuous improvement

· Working with product managers to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues

· Accountable for team completing work you’re leading and work you are doing as agreed upon

· Accountable to team for delivery of quality work

· Serving as a core member of an agile team that leads user story analysis and elaboration, designs and develops software applications

· Strong thought leadership skills with an ability to problem solve and create strategic plans

7+ years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent is required with hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing
Successful engineering and deployment of enterprise-grade technology products in an Agile environment
Hands-on delivery experience in the fundamental components of the assigned portfolio’s primary technology stack(s) (some of them include Java, Big Data Technologies, Apache Flink, Apache Spark, SingleStore, No-SQL Databases, Relational Databases, Microservices, APIs, JSON, XML, REST etc.)
· Profound Knowledgebase with Java, Spring, Open source and building RESTful API.
· Expert Java; fluency with Java 17 streams
· Knowledgeable and experienced with real time framework, data streaming like Kafka, Filnk, In-memory computation and data virtualization tools & techniques
· Knowledgeable and experienced with scripting languages such as Python, etc.
· Strong UNIX shell scripting skills
· Thorough understanding of XML, JSON, Web Service technologies, and data structure fundamental
· Implementation or working experience of Continuous Integration and Continues Delivery using tools and automation capabilities such as JUnit, Mocking, TestNG, Jenkins, Git, Stash and Jira
· Highly proficient in SQL and PL/SQL ; Skilled at optimizing large complicated SQL statements ; Strong PL/SQL skills including complex query building and query performance tuning
· Large scale software product engineering experience with contemporary tools and delivery methods in a complex environment (i.e. DevOps, CD/CI, Agile, etc.)
· Creation of Engineering Best Practices adopted by a large segment of the technology organization.
Creation of tools or other technologies that become integral to the operation of the platform.
· Successful assimilation of new technology into an existing technology stack
· Outstanding influential and collaboration skills; ability to drive consensus and tangible outcomes, demonstrated by breaking down silos and fostering cross communication process
· Preferred working experience in Big Data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, , MAPR (plus), NoSQL )
· Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate.

· Knowledge in objected oriented analysis and design across a variety of platforms.

· Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing.
· Ensure data quality and integrity within each data set and support linkage to other appropriate data sets in consistent manner. This includes testing and validating any new database design against previous data structures.
· Demonstrated ability to analyze data concerning production volumes, batch schedules, and i/o statistics.
· Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners.
· Experience with a broad range of software languages and financial business domain knowledge will be a plus

Technology Skills You'll Use Every Day:

Adaptive Communication
Agile Practices
Industry and Company Knowledge
Organizational Change
Technical Acuity
Technology Industry Trends

Game Changers:

Flexibility
Collaboration & Partnership
Continuous Improvement
Courage
Curiosity
Resourcefulness

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

Competitive base salaries
Bonus incentives
Support for financial-well-being and retirement
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
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

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes 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.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

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