American Express

Software Engineer II

Posted On

July 30, 2025

Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

Aug. 17, 2025

Job Description

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

How will you make an impact in this role?

You won’t just keep up; you’ll break new ground. There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express.

Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing:

Taking your place as a core member of an agile team driving the latest development practices
Writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation
Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies
Leading a team of engineers that delivers knowledge management solutions to businesses worldwide

Key Responsibilities:

Perform hands-on design, and development of systems
Participate in Solution management discussions to drive solutions for the Enterprise.
Ability to solution and implement onto the processes quickly for the team.
Perform rapid Pilot/POCs to experiment various engineering optimization and inner-sourcing techniques
Function as an agile team member and helps drive consistent development practices w.r.t. tools, common components, and documentation
Ability to identify cross functional architecture and engineering re-usable opportunities
Optimize the current architecture and code base for various Cornerstone centric data pipelines for better TAT
Support engineers in rapid development and deployment by re-designing & revamping the current code base to more global, composable and modularized code
Provide guiding principles and partner with multi-functional product teams for proactive maintenance of the critical data assets owned by their respective business functions
Lead data quality issue prevention and remediation; handle exceptions and issues on data quality and run remediation process activities with appropriate data stewards and governance bodies

Minimum Qualifications:

Computer Science or equivalent degree with minimum of 4+ years of work experience developing software applications
Hands on development experience of large-scale application development and workflows using Pega, Java, Spring boot, Reactjs Nodejs, Expressjs
Experience in using Relational databases like MySQL, NOSQL databases like Couchbase.
Should have worked on REST API design and implementation
Experience in development of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines using Jenkins or any equivalent
Have excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to interpret the business needs from the Product Owners
Strong quantitative, data visualization, and reporting skills
Able to learn new tech stack
Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
Familiar/Certified in Agile or other rapid application development methods.
Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.
High energy, demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies, and takes pride in how fast they develop working software

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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