Software Engineer-Spark and Scala - job 1 of 6

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

You will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering world class Omnichannel cardmember experiences and personal integration through java services and data driven solution on Big Data stack, Spark, Scala, GCP, Elastic Search and APIs. You will be challenged with identifying innovative and transformative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers.

Focus - Design, development, troubleshooting, and debugging of work efforts for customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end-user applications.

Organizational Context - Member of a product engineering or delivery and integration team 

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform technical aspects of software development for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and hands- on coding assignments of various technologies. 
• Function as an engineer in an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Strong OpenSource concepts and enable engineers to guide and adapt.  
• Do code reviews and automated testing, build and adapt CICD within the team 
• Lead Product Management and work closely with product owners in defining roadmap  
• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation
• Collaborate with others in crafting and implementing your technical vision
• Able to do deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration and production environments. 
• Automate deployments in test or production environments 
• Automatically scale applications based on demand projections Leadership 
• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals 
• Influence team members with innovative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5 to 6 years of software development experience in a professional environment 
• Wide breath of engineering experience, Big Data , SPARK , API, Elastic Search,, SCALA
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, SCALA.,
• Proficiency in the Big Data stack (Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL, HBase)
• Experience in data streaming platforms experience such as Kafka, Airflow, Apex, Spark 
• Resolves complex technical design issues
• Collaborate with the other architects, product managers, data scientists, business analysts and other engineers to define requirements and design solutions. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• GCP and AWS technology is a plus 
• Java, Go Lang is a plus 
• Gihub actions for data piple is a plus 

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 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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