Senior Software Engineer - Agile Hybrid or Virtual

Company: American Express
Location: Honolulu
Posted on: January 23, 2023

Job Description:

**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 upholdour 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.As an Application Security Senior. Engineer for Application Portfolio Management, you will---+ Lead a strong group of full stack engineers.+ Design features, solve problems, debug, document and develop software and systems that meet the needs of internal users.+ Maintain platform health through uplifts, vulnerability remediation, and ensuring enterprise resiliency.+ Use modern technology stacks to enable build at scale, high-quality delivery and automated deployment.+ Build in quality and leverage a Dev Ops mindset to improve operational efficiency.+ Adopt a collaborative approach to strategic discussions, thinking outside of the box, and challenging the status-quo.+ Take proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks.+ Lead the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across development, test, and production environments.**Responsibilities:**+ Function as a technical leader on an Agile team by providing technical expertise, thought leadership, and contributing to technical delivery through consistent engineering practices (usage of enterprise tools, reusable components, and technical documentation).+ Hands-on engineering expertise in developing complex, large scale enterprise applications.+ Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments.+ Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform.+ Apply specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives in order to identify complex and or broad problems and issues and formulate recommendations.+ Collaborate with leadership across teams to define solutions and technical implementations to drive software maturity and practices.+ Provide technical mentorship to software engineers at all levels.+ Drive both high-level and detailed technical designs and conduct design reviews as needed.+ Implement new, highly scalable platform components.+ Improve and maintain existing components of the core platform.+ Employ technical expertise to help team members overcome technical problems.+ Maintain health and quality of the code across the portfolio, including leadership over SCM, functional testing, and CI/CD tool integration.**Basic Qualifications:**+ Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related field required.+ 8 years of paid engineering experience.+ 5 years experience building backend applications using NodeJS.+ 5 years experience coding in JavaScript.+ 5 years experience with xPaaS (Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, ELK stack, Splunk etc.).+ 5 years experience with CI/CD tools including GIT, Jenkins, and XLR.+ 5 years experience in building fault-tolerant, scalable solutions.+ 5 years experience with NoSQL databases.+ 5 years experience with enterprise-grade APIs (GraphQL, JSON, XML, etc.).+ 5 years experience using Service Oriented Architecture design principles and implementationpatterns.+ 5 years experience in diagnosing, resolving, and preventing the recurrence of system outages.+ 5 years experience mentoring junior engineers.**Preferred Qualifications:**+ 8 years of active engineering experience in a complex environment and/or comparable experience such as successful engineering and deployment of enterprise-grade technology assets in an Agile product environment.+ Knowledge of omni-channel design patterns and reusability considerations.+ Experience in building fault-tolerant, scalable solutions.+ Proficient in cross-platform integration.+ Advanced engineering skill with wide-ranging experience; able to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.+ Ability to handle multiple priorities and deadlines with independent judgment.+ Passion for learning new technologies, industry trends and deep technical curiosity.+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills.+ Advanced degree**Qualifications**Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually bonus benefitsThe above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.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.We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.US Job Seekers/Employees - Click here to view the "Know Your Rights" poster and supplement and the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.If the links do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters to access the three posters.**Job:** Technology**Primary Location:** United States**Schedule** Full-time**Req ID:** 23000537

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