React Job: Engineer III

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible — and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way.

When you join Team Amex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we champion your meaningful career journey with programs, benefits, and flexibility to back you personally and professionally. Every colleague shares in the company’s success.

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.

Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to our customers, communities, and each other every day. And, we’ll do it with integrity and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they truly belong.

Join #TeamAmex and let’s lead the way together.

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. Amex 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.

Our Software 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.You won’t just keep up, you’ll break new ground.

The BTA (Business Travel Account) team are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Java/Kotlin engineer with an enquiring mind, to help us deliver best in class solutions for T&E competitiveness.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• You will join an existing agile development scrum team contributing to the building of an exciting transformation platform.
• The transformation codebase is growing quickly so this position suits someone who can hit the ground running, form good working relationships quickly, and add value by introducing best practice design and development.
• Whilst Java is the core technology, we are looking for someone who understands a range of associated technologies and has a proven ability to get to grips with new ideas quickly

Minimum Qualifications:

• Hands-on expertise with Java/Kotlin application design, software development and automated testing
• Core Java (Java 11 minimum) with Spring Boot
• Commutable following a BDD/TDD approach using technologies such as Junit, Mockio and Cucumber
• Experience with Docker, Kafka, Postgres, ReactJS experience would be advantageous
• Experience working in an Agile Team
• A drive to learn industry leading/innovative technologies and solutions
• Open to innovation and experimentation
• Team-oriented, and a core contributor, enabling the team to be more effective and productive
• Must be willing and able to express new ideas, concerns and opinions directly to team
• Attention to detail and accuracy are essential
• Proactive, enthusiastic, flexible, and results driven
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Degree level education or equivalent experience

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

To complete your application, please click on the links below. However, if you require any assistance with the completion of this process – or need any reasonable adjustments to be made – then please contact the Recruitment Team on [email protected]