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?

Extraordinary colleague digital experiences don’t happen by accident. As an engineer supporting the General Counsel’s Organization (GCO), you will engineer and integrate solutions that leverage best-of-breed vendor products and services to support the mission of the GCO to protect and strengthen American Express through world-class expertise and strategic advice.

If you love building solutions in an enterprise environment, engineering interfaces between systems, information security, and configuring the latest technologies, we’ll support you with an open environment and learning culture to grow your career.

You will also have a sharp eye when it comes to Information Security and Platform Health to ensure all our products and services are secure and compliant within the ever-changing security landscape.

As a part of our technical team, you will work to bring ground-breaking and diverse ideas to life that power the digital systems, services, products, and platforms that our GCO colleagues depend on.

Automating Legal workflowsBuilding seamless integrations between vendor products and the Amex environment by developing APIs, utilizing enterprise file transfer, and Identity and Access platformsCollaborating with product owners, delivery managers, vendors, engineers, architects, and key stakeholders to resolve complex technical problems and create solutions for the GCO portfolio.Maintaining the Platform Health of vendor products through vulnerability remediation, CMDB validation and maintenance, threat modeling, and ensuring enterprise resiliency

Job Responsibilities:

Function as an engineer on an Agile team, contributing to the technical delivery through consistent engineering practices (usage of enterprise tools, reusable components, and technical documentation)Develop deep understanding of GCO application logic, middleware, backend technologies, and dependencies within the context of a hybrid environment (SaaS and on-prem)Perform technical aspects of software development, configuration, and remediation for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments.Develop, support, configure, and maintain strategic applications for Global Real Estate portfolio of applicationsProvide L2/L3 production support for GCO applications.Automate deployments in test and production environments and leverage enterprise CI/CDEffectively communicate with technical and non-technical peers, and business partners to gather requirements and communicate solutions.Demonstrate strong leadership in developing and resolving technical issuesAccountability for platform health including system performance, platform availability, vulnerability remediation, standards alignment, information security, and data management.

Minimum Qualifications:

5+ years of software development experience in a professional environment or comparable experienceBachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experienceHands-on experience with Java, API development, file-based integration development, and microservicesWorking knowledge and practical experience with RDBMS datasetsProven ability to solve technical problems and the ability to influence othersFamiliar with Agile or other rapid application development methodsAbility to handle multiple priorities and deadlines with independent judgement.Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in the Legal technology domainExperience in Workflow Automation / Business Process Automation (BPA) platforms, Tonkean experience is a plusExperience with Java, functional programming, asynchronous programming, the concepts of clean codeHave expertise with Spring, React, relational and non-relational databases, cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelinesEnjoy automating systems, improving reliability, and challenging processes with the goal of continuous improvement

 

Salary Range: $78,000.00 to $124,750.00 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.

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