You won't just keep up, you'll break new ground.
Would you like to be part of a vibrant team working on a global platform helping card members enjoy their card benefits and ensuring their Amex card is the first card in their wallet? Then Global Benefit Management (GBM) is for you!
GBM determines the eligibility of benefits for our card members, such as elite hotels, car hire, UBER, and access to airport lounges and a multitude of other unique and exclusive benefits. GBM has a number of APIs consumed by both internal and external teams and 3rd Parties. It is a modern platform with plenty of new development to meet the demands of new benefit launches with exciting benefit partners, keeping the work fresh and rewarding. GBM makes a difference to how card members are serviced by our CCPs and front-end portals. The team is continually encouraged to innovate, and we see many ideas being taken up by our product owners. Most of our work is in the top 50 enterprise initiatives.
If you're looking for your next career move and seeking an opportunity to work with an enticing array of technology, then we have a great opportunity for you. We are looking for a high performing and enthusiastic Java Engineer to join the team. This role will partner closely with our product owners and agile champions within a collaborative scrum team, in an environment that values interesting challenges, using best practice testing and automation, and prioritises your professional development.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work within an agile team developing solutions to drive engagement and loyalty within our existing cardmember base and attract new customers to the Amex brand
- Contribute to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation) and enhancing practices where need be
- Participate in code reviews and automated testing
- Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation
- Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
- Automate deployments in test or production environments
- Automatically scale applications based on the demand projections
- Partner with other development teams, testing and quality, and production support, to meet implementation dates and allow smooth transition throughout the development lifecycle
- Influence team members with creative changes and improvements
- Provide support to other Engineers
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
Minimum Qualifications:
- University Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required
- Hands-on java software engineer experience and the ability to build high quality software using a modern development stack
- Application design, software development, and testing experience, preferably in an Agile environment
- Experience working with Git
- Open-source frameworks experience is a plus - especially maintaining or contributing to open-source projects
- Experience with continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Gitlab CI)
- Experience with automated build and test frameworks
- A proven hunger to learn new technologies and translate them into working software
- Container and container orchestration technologies experience, such as Docker and Kubernetes, a plus
- Experience with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.), a plus
- Strong ability to develop unique, outside the box ideas
- Strong analytical, problem-solving/quantitative skills
- Willing to take risks, experiment, and share fresh perspectives
- Aptitude for learning and applying programming concepts
- Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners
- Contributions to open source projects/inner source is a plus
Why American Express?
There's a difference between having a job and making a difference.
Amex have been making a difference in people's lives for over 160 years, backing them in moments big and small, granting access, tools, and resources to take on their biggest challenges and reap the greatest rewards. We've also made a difference in the lives of our people, providing a culture of learning and collaboration, and helping them with what they need to succeed and thrive. We have their backs as they grow their skills, conquer new challenges, or even take time to spend with their family or community. And when they're ready to take on a new career path, we're right there with them, giving them the guidance and momentum into the best future they envision.
When you join , you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. 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.
Because we believe that the best way to back our customers is to back our people.
The powerful backing of American Express.
Don't make a difference without it.
Don't live life without it.
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