Senior Full Stack Engineer - FX & Global Payments

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

American Express is looking for an entrepreneurial and creative full stack Web Developer to join the Global Pay engineering team. Global Pay is responsible for the development of a cloud-based, highly available platform enabling international money transfers for global commercial clients. Working in the Global Pay team, you will be responsible for developing and delivering the core functionalities for our international money transfer system, building the a platform targeting millions of American Express users and supporting the roll out of new features, components, and functions.

What are we looking for?

A Senior Engineer with experience leading a scrum team in building a great product, a role model that will pursue technical excellence and establish great engineering practices.

What will you do?

• Build scalable services using Kotlin
• Deliver an excellent UX with a React based stack
• Write high quality, functional code
• Integrate with our partners to process financial transactions
• Mentor and grow your team
• Be an active participant in feature refinement and solution design
• Be a key part of the senior engineers group defining technical strategy and the architectural roadmap
  
  

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

What you will need?

• A proactive mind-set and the drive to lead and mentor you colleagues
• Hands on knowledge in architecting and orchestrating a complex integration-heavy system
• Interest in learning new technologies and an ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical colleagues
• Experience of intricacies of the financial industry or other highly regulated industries
• Conversant with RESTful web service design, Kafka, JMS or other messaging technologies.
• Expertise with the JVM (e.g. Java, Kotlin, Scala, etc.)
• Expertise with JavaScript frameworks such as React/Redux, HTML5, CSS3
• Experience working with Spring, relational databases, cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines
  
  

It would be great if you:

• Have experience with multiple JVM languages, functional programming, asynchronous programming, the concepts of clean code
• An understanding of product development concepts, e.g. minimum viable product, design sprints, prototyping, A/B testing, etc.
• Strive to automate systems, improve reliability and challenge processes with the goal of continuous improvement
• Experience working with complex integrations involving payment/financial technologies
  
  

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