Engineer I

Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Permanent
Full-time

9 days ago

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American .As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customer's 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.Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Owns all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications. Performs hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems.
Functions as member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development practices wrt tools, common components, and documentation.
Typically spends 80% of time writing code and testing, and remainder of time collaborating with stakeholders through ongoing product/platform releases.
Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other Amex systems and platforms within the supported domains.
Writes code and unit tests, works on API specs, automation, and conducts code reviews and testing.
Performs ongoing refactoring of code, utilizes visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts, and deliver continuous improvement - Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies.
Provides continuous support for ongoing application availability.
Works closely with product owners on blueprints and annual planning of feature sets that impact multiple platforms and products .
Works with product owners to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues.

Qualification:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
5+ years of software development experience
Demonstrated experience with Agile or other rapid application development methods
Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design and coding
Demonstrated experience on these core technical skills (Mandatory)
Core Java, Spring Framework, Java EE
Hadoop Ecosystem (HBase, Hive, MapReduce, HDFS, Pig, Sqoop etc)
Spark
Relational Database (Postgres / MySQL / DB2 etc)
Cloud development (Micro-services)
Parallel & distributed (multi-tiered) systems
Application design, software development and automated testing
Demonstrated experience on these additional technical skills (Nice to Have)
Unix / Shell scripting
Python / Scala
Message Queuing, Stream processing (Kafka)
Elastic Search
Webservices, open API development, and REST concepts
Experience with implementing integrated automated release management using tools/technologies/frameworks like Maven, Git, code/security review tools, Jenkins, Automated testing and Junit.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, 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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