Senior Java Software Engineer - Wealth Management

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.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. American Express 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.We’re looking for an experienced Java Backend Engineer to join a top talent team working on a fast-evolving set of experimental and new applications, services and platforms that is serving tens of millions of customers around the world. Someone who is passionate about shaping the future of commerce and personal finance; Someone who is obsessive about good design and great code; Someone who can find elegant solutions to hard technical and functional challenges and can work well within and across teams.Responsibilities• Serve as a senior member of an agile development team that drives user story analysis and elaboration.• Design and develop software solutions, think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems.• Foster the spirit of collaboration across multiple internal teams.• Participate in solution architecture, code reviews, ad-hoc pair programming; contribute to iterative improvement of tools, automation and practices used by team.• Mentor and lead team members.Qualifications• Proven expertise in REST API design and implementation.• Proven expertise in with SOA, Micro-Services, Containers.• Experience with Stream processing/Queue - Solace, Kafka.• Experience with Databases – MongoDB (Or a different Document DB/ NoSQL), PostgreSQL.• Familiar with tools - Git, Jenkins, IntelliJ IDEA, Jira, Confluence.• Familiarity with security principles, SSL, Cryptography.• 10+ years of experience with Java backend (J2EE). Nice to have Kotlin experience• 5+ Years Reactive Programing (asynchronous programming paradigm) ideally with Spring boot WebFlux, Vert.x and RxJava.• A BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar discipline, or equivalent work experience• Experience building and supporting distributed highly available systems.• Good communication skills.• High energy and ‘can-do’ attitude.• Interest in new technologies and tools, industry best practices.• Passion for shipping quality software fast and frequently.