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 recognised 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. 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.

Architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives.

How will you make an impact in this role?

As a Senior Engineer with experience in building great products, you'll be a role model that will pursue technical excellence and establish great engineering practices.

• Write high quality, functional code
• Integrate with our partners to process financial transactions
• Mentor and grow your team members
• Be an active participant in feature refinement and solution design
• Be a key part of the senior engineers group defining technical strategy and the architectural roadmap
  
  

What you will need:

• A proactive mind-set and the drive to lead and mentor you colleagues
• Hands on knowledge in architecting and orchestrating a complex integration-heavy system
• Be keen to learn new technologies and be able to articulate technical concepts to non-technical colleagues
• Experience of intricacies of the financial industry or other highly regulated industries
• You are conversant with relational database technologies, preferably with great Oracle experience
• To have worked with JVM services, cloud platforms, and CI/CD pipelines
  
  

It would be great if:

• You strive to automate systems, improve reliability and challenge processes with the goal of continuous improvement
• You have worked with complex integrations involving payment/financial technologies
• An understanding of product development concepts, e.g. minimum viable product, design sprints, prototyping, A/B testing, etc.

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
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible work arrangements and schedules with hybrid and virtual options with Amex Flex
• 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
  
  

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.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.


To complete your application , please click on the links below . However , if you require any assistance with the completion of this process – or need any reasonable adjustments to be made – then please contact the Recruitment Team on recruitment.support.uk@aexp.com