American Express is looking to solve the problem of redefining the merchant payment experience by making strategic investments in new merchant products and platforms to meet its high-reaching global growth agenda.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with Reactive and Functional programming, Java, Vert.X, APIs, Spark, Scala, Kafka, Gridgain, Apache ignite, Cassandra, Full Stack, PostgreSQL, OneData, DB/Caches (Elastic/Redis), DB2 and eCP infrastructure, Jenkins and In Memory Computing.
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability.
- Strong experience in applications with high throughput and performance
- High degree of technical expertise related to the core components of the tech stack.
- Expertise in building highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable solutions that perform at a global enterprise scale.
- Experience with Java, Scala, and other programming languages
- Experience with cloud-based technologies and microservices architecture
Responsibilities
- Serve as forward thinking leader on the GMST leadership team, actively participating in enterprise-wide strategic discussions, inspiring change, and helping to drive vital enhancements.
- Drive the technology design, vision, engineering, development, and rollout for multiple products, and software utilities across the Merchant platform, ensuring they meet the evolving needs of American Express and its merchants.
- Perform rapid POCs to experiment and build rails for the engineering team.
- Introduce enterprise architectural paradigms and solutions into the portfolio.
- Drive both high level and detailed design and conduct design reviews
- Communicate to senior leaders regarding strategy direction and changes.
- Mentor engineers and solution architects to ensure technology complexities are understood very clearly to implement solutions expeditiously with high quality.
Other
- 12+ years of hands-on Engineering experience in a complex environment and/or comparable experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field required; Advanced Degree preferred.
- Strong written, verbal communications, presentation skills, leadership, problem solving and analytical skills.
- Proven collaboration skills along with the ability to influence without authority.
- Ability to work in a hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangement depending on role and business need
