Software Engineer II

American Express

Location: Bengaluru South, Karnataka, India
Job type: Full-time

Required skills

Agile
automated testing
Cassandra
DevOps
distributed system
Docker
functional programming
Java
Kafka
Kubernetes
MVC
NoSQL
Redis
Vertx
RESTful

About the role

American Express

Website: americanexpress.com
Job details:

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?

Engineer II contributes to design, development, troubleshooting, debugging, evaluating, modifying, deploying, and documenting software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.
Beginner level ability in software development, such coding assignments
Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals
Participate in code reviews and automated testing
Debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation
Enable the 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.
Range of Impact/Influence:
Accountable for team completing work you’re leading and work you are doing as agreed upon
Accountable to team for delivery of quality work
Minimum Qualifications
3 to 5 years of software development experience
Being a technical coder
Strong OOPs concepts , concurrency , exception handling etc
Datastructures and Algorithms , Strong OS fundamentals , Advanced Java concepts
Experience with Functional Programming practices
Strong implementation experience using Java Technologies – Vertx, Spring MVC, Spring Data and Spring Boot and RESTful micro services. Keen understanding of how to build highly performant systems with such languages.
Hands on experience in building distributed micro-service systems, experience with Service Mesh products/frameworks like such as Envoy, Linkerd, Istio, gRPC/ProtoBuf; Distributed System Management/tracing and monitoring such as Zipkin/Jaeger, ELK Stack, Prometheus
Have experience in designing and building Cloud native applications. Experience in cloud platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift are a plus.
Experience in using NoSQL databases and distributed messaging systems such as Redis, Kafka, Couchbase, Cassandra in the context of low latency and high transaction volume systems.
Experience working in DevOps teams and Scrums.
Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.

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
Support for financial-well-being and retirement
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
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

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