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.

We are seeking a Staff Engineer to serve as a senior technical leader and hands-on individual contributor within our 300-person organization supporting Commercial Cards for large and global corporate clients. This role operates at the intersection of scale, reliability, and innovation—powering mission-critical global platforms that provides our clients best in class services.

You will drive architecture and engineering excellence across complex, distributed ecosystems, partnering across product, risk, operations, and enterprise platforms. The ideal candidate brings a strong track record delivering large, global initiatives in regulated financial environments, integrating with complex internal and external systems and partnering with different stakeholders. You lead through influence, elevating technical standards, mentoring engineers, and shaping long-term technology strategy while remaining close to the code.

You are deeply hands-on, fluent in modern engineering practices, cloud-native architectures, APIs, event-driven systems, and contemporary data platforms. Working knowledge of AI and emerging generative AI capabilities, with the ability to incorporate them thoughtfully into real-world systems across the SDLC—from experimentation and prototyping through integration.

This is a high-impact role for a pragmatic innovator who can balance execution with forward-looking architecture—modernizing our ecosystem, accelerating delivery, and ensuring our platforms scale securely and intelligently with our clients’ evolving needs.

Experience:

Engineering - significant (10+ years) experience with one or more major technology; history of patent awards preferred; demonstrated experience with cloud service provider required (Amazon, Google, Microsoft), certification desiredArchitecture - strong grasp on modern architectural patterns; ability to think big picture while implementing locallyExtensive hands-on coding experience in platforms primary technology stack i.e. proficient in Java (potentially Kotlin), Javascript, React.js. Advance experience in modern technologies (e.g. docker, Kubernetes, Java, Spring, Scala, Python, React.s), RDMS & NoSQL databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, Couchbase, Cassandra) along with CI/CD tooling e.g. Github enterprise, Jenkins, etc.Working knowledge of AI and emerging generative AI capabilities,Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to articulate complex concepts for technical and non-technical audiencesDemonstrated technical leadership; act as mentor for engineers; ability to influence

Salary Range: $144,250.00 to $256,250.00 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + 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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