**Description** 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. As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex. How will you make an impact in this role? Our Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day. Today, innovative ideas, insight and new perspectives are at the core of how we create a more powerful, personal and fulfilling experience for all our customers. So, if you’re interested in a career creating breakthrough software and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further. There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express. Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing: + Designing and building a new application to support the infrastructure build and application migrations to our new data center. You will be utilizing the latest technology tools and practice, you may be writing code and test cases, working with API specs and automation to maintain the resiliency, performance and availability of a group of applications + Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies + Removing toil and continue to drive efficiencies and optimization + Creating dashboards leveraging splunk, Grafana and kibana + Reviews current issues and works with Engineering team to get code fixed and deployed. + Designs, codes, tests, maintains, and documents applications + Build apps that meet compliance and audit requirements that are required for the financial services industry. + Participates in reviews of own work and reviews of colleagues' work + Defines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications provided **Minimum Qualifications** + Recognizes opportunities to adopt innovative technologies to enable business capabilities + Keeps up to date on current research and technology in the industryRecognizes the importance of collaboration to achieve objectives + Clearly communicates ideas and concepts to others + Leads work effectively and acts on own initiative without being prompted + Provides feedback to team members in code reviews + Is curious, drives creative change & continuous improvements + Explores new automation techniques to refine the agility, speed and quality of engineering initiatives and efforts + Balances feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives + Ability to prioritize work and competing demands + Ability to bring other along with you + Knowledge of frameworks and tools in the respective language enabling effective and efficient development + Understanding and interest in architectural patterns for highly available, scalable, low-latency, asynchronous systems (for example, well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms) + Knowledge of the advantages and challenges associated with the implementation of micro-services architecture + Incident management system knowledge (service now) + Basic UNIX knowledge and any programming language (preferably java, go lang or UI stack) + Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods + Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate + Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases + A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks. + Able to understand and use complex data structures and associated components + Basic knowledge of infrastructure technologies and components + Ability to speak clearly and with intent + Ability to navigate and lead the team through high-priority requests; Works well under high-pressure timelines +  Resourceful, has grit, and a positive “can do” attitude; acts without being told what to do **Desired Skills** + CSS experience (headwind CSS, Bootstrap, etc. + Node.JS experience + Strong experience working in any of the following backend languages: Java, Kotlin, C#, Scala + Experience in Source control using tools such as Git with DevOps and IT automation concepts. + Bonus Experience: Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes **Required Qualifications** + Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required. + Two or more years of relevant industry experience **Qualifications** 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 For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site . 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. US Job Seekers - Click to view the “ Know Your Rights ” poster. If the link does not work, you may access the poster by copying and pasting the following URL in a new browser window: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions. **Job:** Technology **Primary Location:** US-Arizona-Phoenix **Schedule** Full-time **Req ID:** 25016721