Wednesday, March 17, 2021

American Express - Senior Engineer I - Distributed Systems (8-12 yrs) (American Express)

Job Description :


You Lead the Way. We've Got Your Back.

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 #TeamAmex, 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.


American Express Global Card Network Platform authorizes and processes all of the company- s customer card transactions. The Card Network platform is the critical back bone for all of American Express card transactions, and is a near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year.


American Express is making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to allow the company to meet its ambitious global growth agenda. American Express is looking for strong leaders and engineers to be part of high energy and efficient teams that will build and support our next generation card network systems.


You won't just shape the world of software.

You'll shape the world of life, work and play.

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.

American Express Global Card Network Platform authorizes and processes all of the company- s customer card transactions. The Card Network platform is the critical back bone for all of American Express card transactions, and is a near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year. American Express is making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to allow the company to meet its ambitious global growth agenda. American Express is looking for strong leaders and engineers to be part of high energy and efficient teams that will build and support our next generation card network systems.

As a Senior Engineer, you will be a hands-on engineer building highly available and scalable distributed system on the cloud that supports the company's long-term strategy and vision. Your primary responsibility is design and develop our next generation distributed transaction platform supporting Amex card transactions.

Key Initiatives :

- Card Transaction Engine and Transaction Routing

- Payment Tokenization and API platform

- Platform Engineering and Foundational Capabilities of distributed systems

- High Availability, Resiliency and Performance Engineering on Cloud

Responsibilities Include :

- You will be responsible for design and building key components of a distributed real-time transaction engine, payment tokenization and payment processing business logic by leveraging these components

- Contribute to high level design as well as detailed design of complex subsystems with emphasis in high availability and low latency.

- Working with developers in day to day activities and helping in review of design, coding and the SDLC tasks.

- Build POCs to experiment new technologies, databases and other application infrastructure.

- You will constantly purse and learn industry leading/innovative technologies and solutions. Be acutely aware of enabling technologies and open-source products to build low latency distributed systems.

- Embrace a culture of innovation and experimentation, engage in fun and outcome-oriented culture, and always be ready to try new concepts without fear of failure.

- Collaborate with peer technology and product teams across different locations.

Minimum Qualifications :

- Computer Science / Information Systems degree, or equivalent with min 8+ years of work experience.

- Strong implementation experience using languages like Java, Golang, C/C++ or Scala. Keen understanding of how to build highly performant systems with such languages.


- Hands on experience in building distributed micro-service systems, experience with Service Mesh products/frameworks like such as Envoy, Linkerd, Istio, gRPC/ProtoBuf; Distributed System Management/tracing and monitoring such as Zipkin/Jaeger, ELK Stack, Prometheus


- Have experience in designing and building Cloud native applications. Experience in cloud platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift are a plus.


- Experience in using NoSQL databases and distributed messaging systems such as Redis, Kafka, Couchbase, Cassandra in the context of low latency and high transaction volume systems.


- Experience in Payment Tokenization and API design is a plus


- Have hands-on experience in building and delivering large scale enterprise systems/products. Implemented critical aspects of the such systems and have supported such applications in production as SAS service.


- Keen awareness of concerns in massively distributed systems and effective solutions.


- Experience working in DevOps teams and Scrums.


- Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.


- Have excellent written and verbal communications skills. Create and deliver effective presentations to Senior Leadership.


American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

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

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