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 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?

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have thepower to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financialconfidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people toexplore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible - and we’reproud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you becomepart of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver anexceptional customer experience every day.

Key Responsibilities:

Global Loyalty & Benefits is in the middle of an exciting transformation journey, and weneed talented engineers who are willing to learn, collaborate, innovate, and adapt toemerging trends and customer demands. Our Loyalty platforms enable many of Amex’smost critical customer differentiators including the flagship Membership Rewardsprogram, and we are constantly seeking new ways to offer value to our customers and drivegrowth for the company.

We are looking for an innovative, experienced, and talented senior software engineer tojoin our API domain team. You will work closely with our product and development teamsto develop new system capabilities at scale and optimize existing capabilities.As part of the Benefit Experience team, you will be responsible for building and launchingnew exciting benefits for card members. You will also be responsible for building thereuseable capabilities using the core components that make up our modern microserviceplatform, driving performance and resiliency, as we scale to take over our classicapplications.

Minimum Qualifications:

4–5 years of professional experience in backend development

Strong proficiency in Golang.

Experience in application design, software development, and testing, in an Agile environment.

Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, Cassandra, Google Spanner, and PostgreSQL.

Experience designing and developing REST APIs for high volume clients and gRPC services. Experience with continuous integration tools & container orchestration technologies (e.g. Docker and Kubernetes).

Experience with version control systems like Git.

Experience working with asynchronous messaging systems like Kafka.Experience with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.), a plus.

Knowledge of system observability, monitoring, and logging tools

Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

Position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Additional:

Knowledge of financial industry

Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS)

Good understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Experience with open-source frameworks is a plus – especially maintaining or contributing to open-source projects.

Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the UK is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.  

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 

Support for financial-well-being and retirement 

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) 

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

Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) 

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

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.