Senior Engineer - Travel and Reconciliation

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You won’t just keep up, you’ll break new ground.

Business Travel Account is a global, market-leading centralised billing product, which is a key differentiator for American Express for our corporate clients, including some of the world’s most profitable and influential companies. You will join our emerging set of scrum teams building new capabilities to bolster the already market-leading offering. We value ideas, opinions and great communicators. We’re proud that a culture of respect and teamwork exists among colleagues.

We are an existing team of 30 technical staff, co-located Agile teams of 7-8, each including Engineers, Agile Champions, Quality Engineers plus Product Owners. We operate in a Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework environment (SAFe). We use tools such as Slack, Confluence, JIRA, and GitHub to collaborate.

We are currently on a journey of transforming the technical landscape from Cobol / Mainframe using a microservice architecture using technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Spring, and React. Due to this, we are looking to bolster our technical talent by acquiring backend and full-stack developers, on both Mainframe and Distributed tech stacks. You will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of your software from inception to production, working on a mixture of green- and brown-field projects, learning from and contributing to your peer group.

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

Minimum Qualifications:

• Preferably a BSc or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline
• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions
• Excellent spoken and written English, clear oral communication skills
• Must be willing and able to express new ideas, concerns and opinions directly to team - Attention to detail and accuracy are essential
• Must be proactive, enthusiastic, flexible, and results driven
• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
• Software development methodologies TDD, BDD and a solid grasp of Domain Driven Design (DDD)
• Practical experience of working in an Agile environment
• Solid understanding of modern Java (11+), including Spring (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Reactive).
• Mainframe / Cobol knowledge required, particularly for modernising practices
• Kotlin advantageous
• Cloud native application development within either private or public clouds
• Kafka or alternative messaging implementations
• Testing frameworks for unit, integration and behaviour
• Experience with frontend technologies such as React would be beneficial
  
  

Why American Express?

There’s a difference between having a job and making a difference.

Amex have been making a difference in people’s lives for over 160 years, backing them in moments big and small, granting access, tools, and resources to take on their biggest challenges and reap the greatest rewards. We’ve also made a difference in the lives of our people, providing a culture of learning and collaboration, and helping them with what they need to succeed and thrive. We have their backs as they grow their skills, conquer new challenges, or even take time to spend with their family or community. And when they’re ready to take on a new career path, we’re right there with them, giving them the guidance and momentum into the best future they envision.

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. We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That’s why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

Because we believe that the best way to back our customers is to back our people.

The powerful backing of American Express.

Don’t make a difference without it.

Don’t live life without it.

To complete your application please click on the links below. However, if you require any assistance with the completion of this process – or need any reasonable adjustments to be made – then please contact the Recruitment Team on recruitment.support.uk@aexp.com