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American Express Software Development Role

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The @Work suite of products helps our clients and servicing group manage corporate card programs more efficiently online. From performing everyday administrative tasks and account maintenance, to accessing reports and utilizing reconciliation solutions, @Work enables fast, efficient and effective program management resulting in time and cost savings for our clients.

In this role, you will oversee all technical aspects of our authorization layer that powers not only the global @Work application but also over 70+ mission critical servicing applications. The successful candidate will focus on implementing our Point of Arrival (POA) authorization layer and delivery of features and enhancements for the entire global registration portfolio.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 6+ years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:
• Wide breadth of engineering experience.
• Proven experience leading improvement on teams.
• Hands-on expertise with application design, software development, and automated testing.
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred.
• Extensive testing experience with advocation for developers testing to build quality in.
• Experience with and advocation for modern engineering practices like: TDD, BDD, ATDD, Trunk Based Development, Domain Driven Design, Evolutionary Design, and Continuous Delivery.
• Understanding of authorizations domain and industry standards (e.g., OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML).
• React: 3+ years.
• Java: 3+ years.
• SQL, ETL, Data experience 2+ years.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams, including setting technical direction and driving execution across multiple initiatives.
• Expertise in designing and developing distributed systems with a focus on performance, scalability, and security.
• Experience in implementing authentication and authorization flows within enterprise-scale applications.
• RDBMs experience.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience engaging cross-functional teams including product, design, and infosec.

Salary Range: $123,000.00 to $215,250.00 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

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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