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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 Express.

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.

The Legato engineering group is building technology to rapidly deploy the software that supports our issuing business. Our goal is to enable engineers at American Express to provision and deploy to public cloud infrastructure in minutes, not weeks, so that the company can move quickly to seize market opportunities and implement strategic priorities.

We’re looking for senior engineers to be part of an established team, in the early phases of our public cloud journey, with the opportunity to use modern languages and tools and to deploy software in public cloud environments. Our multi-functional team spans the stack, from front ends to APIs to databases, and they will have all the skills and resources they need to build, ship and operate their own software.

Some of the problems we'll work on include:

+ How to provide sensible defaults for infrastructure to engineers at American Express, whilst allowing for customization and ensuring that infrastructure is secure and compliant by default

+ Writing technical documentation used by thousands of engineers at American Express to understand and use platform components to manage infrastructure for their applications

+ Accelerating time-to-value for engineering teams at American Express, using tools and techniques such as developer portals, and application templates to enable infrastructure to be provisioned in minutes.

+ Enabling engineers at American Express to provision short-lived, ephemeral test environments for integration or performance testing in their CI/CD pipelines

As a Senior Engineer in our team, you will:

+ Scope and lead technical projects within an engineering team, helping team members plan and execute their work

+ Directly contribute to the design and coding of our products, serving as a role model for how great software is built at Amex

+ Take responsibility for the extensibility, security, scalability, and reliability of our software, ensuring that it meets our SLAs

+ Help drive sound technical decision making within our group and lead technical conversations with other engineering teams

+ Coach junior team members and delegate projects that develop their skills

Qualifications:

+ You have been working as an engineer implementing complex software projects in a variety of business and technology environments

+ You have significant experience designing systems that deliver critical business impact

+ You have experience with at least one cloud provider, preferably either AWS or GCP

+ You are skilled in gathering and synthesizing users’ feedback and experience with your software

+ You are effective at giving and receiving constructive feedback to/from peers, team members, and leaders

+ You work well multi-functionally, and your colleagues at all levels and across all teams trust you

+ You are comfortable working in ambiguously defined problem spaces and can identify the most valuable areas to direct your energy and deliver tangible results

Technologies we use at Amex include:

+ Go, Java, and JavaScript on the server, with Kotlin and TypeScript starting to make headway

+ React in the browser

+ Code lives in GitHub Enterprise and flows to production through a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions

+ Code runs in Kubernetes-managed Docker containers hosted in a mix of private and public clouds

+ Other key tech includes GraphQL, gRPC, Kafka, Terraform, Postgres, Couchbase, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redis, OpenTracing, Jaeger, Prometheus, and Grafana

In this position, you may choose to work either fully on-site or in a hybrid configuration, coming into a technology campus 3 days per week. Our teams are distributed across the UK and the US.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually bonus benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

+ Competitive base salaries

+ Bonus incentives

+ 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

+ Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

+ Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

+ 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

+ Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)

+ Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program

+ Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .

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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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.

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Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

**Job:** Technology

**Primary Location:** US-New York-New York

**Schedule** Full-time

**Req ID:** 25008281