Senior Software Engineer - Java

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

- 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

- 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