American Express

Senior Software Engineer I

Posted On

Dec. 17, 2025

Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

Feb. 22, 2026

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Responsible for contacting clients with overdue accounts to secure the settlement of the account. Also they do preventive work to avoid future overdues with accounts that have a high exposure.

Responsibilities:

Develops and tests software, including ongoing refactoring of code & drives continuous improvement in code structure & quality.
Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals, and experience,
Primary focus is spent writing code, API specs, conducting code reviews & testing in ongoing sprints or doing proof of concepts/automation tools.
Functions as a core member of an Agile team driving User story analysis & elaboration, design and development of software applications, testing & builds automation tools.
Works on a specific platform/product or as part of a dynamic resource pool assigned to projects based on demand and business priority.
Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies.
Working knowledge of UNIX, Linux, Postman will be advantageous.
Working knowledge of CICD Tools
Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback.
Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks.
Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders.
Embodies growth mentality by looking beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.
Designs, codes, tests, maintains, and documents applications.
Takes part in reviews of own work and reviews of colleagues' work.
Defines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications provided.
Has deep understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)
Intermediate knowledge of infrastructure technologies and component.
Provides advanced knowledge of technical and functional principles.
Effectively leverages General knowledge of the relationships that exist between all relevant functional groups within American Express.
Should have experience in analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of system applications.
Demonstrated ability to develop and document technical and functional specifications and analyze software and system processing flows.
Creative problem solving (Innovative)

Education & Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer Science or equivalent OR master’s in computer applications or equivalent
4 to 7 years of experience is required. Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods.
Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate.
Tech Stack / Programming language for this role – Java, Kotlin
Hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing
Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
Confirmed experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages.
Participate in code reviews and automated testing.

Technical/Platforms:

Back-end programming languages using Core Java
Able to understand and use complex data structures and associated components.
Tech Stack / Programming language for this role – Java, Kotlin
Working knowledge of UNIX, Linux, Postman will be needed.
Expert on Core JAVA
REST APIs
Working Knowledge of CICD.
Understanding of server-side languages (Jade, EJS, Jinja, etc)
Source control (Git, SVN, Bitbucket, Svn, Stack overflow, etc.)
Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Bambo)
Container Concepts (LXD, Docker)
Orchestration (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm)

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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