Backend Engineer, Financial Data Engineering

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.

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

Who we are:

The Finance Data Engineering group at American Express is entering into a new phase of technology transformation driven by opportunities to simplify processes, deepen business intelligence, analytics and reporting, and raise operational efficiency. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative products and services at a rapid pace, with hands on experience and strategic thinking, in areas of data management and analytics, cloud computing, and modern software engineering, join our leadership team to be part of our transformation journey.

What we’re looking for:

You’re a talented, creative, and motivated engineer who loves developing powerful, stable, and intuitive apps – and you’re excited to work with a team of individuals with that same passion. You’ve accumulated years of experience, and you’re excited about taking your mastery of Java, Kotlin, Python, or JavaScript to a new level. You enjoy challenging projects involving big data sets and are cool under pressure. You’re no stranger to fast-paced environments and agile development methodologies – in fact, you embrace them. With your strong analytical skills, your unwavering commitment to quality, your excellent technical skills, and your collaborative work ethic, you’ll do great things here at American Express.

Minimum Qualifications

• Communicates, collaborates, and proactively engages with teammates (and cross-functional teams alike) to ensure requirements are delivered on-time.


• Accountable to team for delivery of quality work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills and programming skills.


• Solid Engineering Principles (OOP/Func Paradigms, TDD, DDD, SoC, Microservices, Caching Strategies).


• Experience with at least one or more languages: Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, JavaScript, C++.


• Experience with relational database engines (ie: MySQL, Postgres, MemSQL).


• Experience with container technologies and runtimes (docker, containerd, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, etc).


• Experience with CICD pipelines (ie: Jenkins/CircleCI/XLR/Git/GitHub Actions).


• Experience with different architectures: (ie: mvc, microservices, async/event-based, task-based, workflow-based, ETLs, data pipelines) a plus.


• Experience with highly available, reliable, and secure APIs, services a plus.


• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure resources (DevOps, CloudOps, SecOps, or SRE experience a plus).

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The 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.

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


• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan


• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support


• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits


• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need


• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy


• 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

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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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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.

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