Senior Software Engineer - Java

American Express

(Phoenix, Arizona)

Full Time

Job Posting Details

About American Express

American Express is a global service company, providing customers with exceptional access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success.

Responsibilities

- Serving as a core member of an agile team that drives user story analysis and elaboration, designs and develops software applications, and tests and builds automation tools
- Owning all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications; - Performing hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems
- Performing hands-on software development and testing, typically spending about 50% of time writing code, API specs, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints, or doing proof of concepts/automation tools
- Driving consistent development practices - tools and common components; Developing deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
- Working with technical product managers contributing to blueprints, and assisting with annual planning of feature sets
- Identifying exciting opportunities for adopting new technology to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges
- Mentoring engineers, and may have management responsibilities over 2-3 engineers

Serving as a core member of an agile team that drives user story analysis and elaboration, designs and develops software applications, and tests and builds automation tools
Owning all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications; - Performing hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems
Performing hands-on software development and testing, typically spending about 50% of time writing code, API specs, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints, or doing proof of concepts/automation tools
Driving consistent development practices - tools and common components; Developing deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
Working with technical product managers contributing to blueprints, and assisting with annual planning of feature sets
Identifying exciting opportunities for adopting new technology to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges
Mentoring engineers, and may have management responsibilities over 2-3 engineers

Ideal Candidate

- 6+ years of software development experience, and preferably Rest or Web Services experience is a plus
- Prior experience with 3. and/ or .4x spring, Spring framework, spring batch, MVC, Web Application and RESTful Web Service framework is preferred
-         Demonstrated experience implementing application design, common concepts, such as caching, profiling, performance tuning, including use of Rest/ Jason
- BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline and/ or equal work experience
- Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing
- Thorough understanding of XML, JSON , web services technologies, and data structure fundamentals, with experience in multi-threaded programming
- Experience with Java applications design and development in an Enterprise setting using J2EE, Spring, SQL DBMSs
- Experience with a broad range of software languages and payments technologies is a plus
- Expertise in objected oriented analysis and design across a variety of platforms
- A proven hunger to learn new technologies and translate them into working software
- Ability to effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on solution design

6+ years of software development experience, and preferably Rest or Web Services experience is a plus
Prior experience with 3. and/ or .4x spring, Spring framework, spring batch, MVC, Web Application and RESTful Web Service framework is preferred
Demonstrated experience implementing application design, common concepts, such as caching, profiling, performance tuning, including use of Rest/ Jason
BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline and/ or equal work experience
Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing
Thorough understanding of XML, JSON , web services technologies, and data structure fundamentals, with experience in multi-threaded programming
Experience with Java applications design and development in an Enterprise setting using J2EE, Spring, SQL DBMSs
Experience with a broad range of software languages and payments technologies is a plus
Expertise in objected oriented analysis and design across a variety of platforms
A proven hunger to learn new technologies and translate them into working software
Ability to effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on solution design