Senior Engineer - Legato

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As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers' digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. Amex offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

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.

Create digital experiences that enhance our customers lives at every touchpoint.

The Legato engineering group is building technology to rapidly deploy the software that supports our issuing business. Our goal is to be able to stand up a new instance of "Amex as a service" in hours, not quarters, 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 a team that is just starting up, 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 set up the infrastructure and install the software for hundreds of applications at once
• How to operate and evolve a set of global services with compute and data partitioned across geographically distributed data centers
• How to modularize our architecture so that we can flexibly plug in market-specific capabilities like payment processing and credit reporting on a global scale

As an Engineer (E1) 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
• Mentor 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 aspire to be a Staff or Principal Engineer
• You have significant experience designing systems that deliver critical business impact
• You have experience with at least one cloud provider, preferably AWS
• 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 regularly (approximately 3 days out of every week). Our teams are distributed across the UK and the US.

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 our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• 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.

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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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