The Enterprise Technology Services organization partners with every part of the American Express business to power the company’s growth and innovation with trust and efficiency, and drive competitive differentiation with speed. We support the delivery and operations of technology, digital, and data capabilities, platforms, and services globally. Specifically, our team is responsible for the company’s technology engineering, architecture, and infrastructure, providing 24x7 support to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality experience for customers and colleagues. We also provide product management for core enterprise platforms, and lead technology risk and information security, enterprise data governance and platforms, digital product and design, and enterprise AI platforms on behalf of the company.

Global Merchant Services Technology is on an exciting journey to redefine the merchant payment experience. Our Merchant platform is a distributed near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year. If you like to challenge the status quo and desire to use best in class technology, it's time to join the GMST organization which strives for continuous innovation. 

Are you a change agent with a deep engineering passion to build outstanding products for merchants? If so, we are looking for an enthusiastic, driven, and forward-thinking Software Engineer to join us on our mission

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. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our 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.

As an Engineer in GMST you will be building core features and functions of card transaction systems on distributed platform deployed in the cloud. Actively participating in agile teams and the latest development practices, writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation. GMST Engineers use Java Technologies to drive innovation while also finding opportunities for adopting new technologies.

• Degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of software development experience in a professional environment working with Java technologies - Vertx, Spring, Spring Boot, RESTful micro services, Ignite, In-Memory Computing, Spark, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kafka, Yellowbrick (Apache Ignite is a plus) and RESTful API’s.
• Hands-on experience with application design, software development and automated testing
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, relational or NoSQL databases.
• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and eloquent solutions.
• Ability to learn and investigate new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
• Ability to debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation.
• Experience working in Agile or other rapid application development methods.
• Proficient oral and written communication skills.