Engineer - Backend

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As part of the Enterprise Platforms Sales & Marketing organization, here’s just some of what you’ll be doing: The Salesforce platform is part of the larger Enterprise Platforms Centre of Excellence where product, engineering, and delivery colleagues have been brought together to drive a step function change in speed to market and further unlock customer value across several the company’s core platforms.
The global Salesforce platform team sits at the heart of American Express’ global marketing, sales, and account development functions for all lines of business.
This platform is a critical enabler of American Express’ customer centricity and growth objectives.
As a Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining services, which connects Amex Salesforce platform with various enterprise capabilities.
Your role will be pivotal in enabling data and integration capabilities both in real-time and batch mode to ensure that our Sales and Marketing teams have access to accurate and timely data for decision making.
Job Responsibilities: Serving as a core member of an Engineering team, that designs and develop software applications Effectively interpreting technical and business objectives and challenges and articulating sound solutions.
Develop Microservices using Spring /Vertex/Spring Cloud.
Effectively handle distributed transactions .
Develop and deploy microservices based APIs over Docker containers .
Provide technical expertise in driving projects from inception to closure Work independently as well as collaborate effectively with cross functional teams on case-by-case basis .
Work with Product team, other data engineers and DevOps to deliver features on time.
Be a change agent with hands-on ability to build POC products and set the best practices.
Perform code reviews and help the team to produce quality code.
Work in a geographically distributed team setup.
Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes.
Fine tune the existing application with new ideas and optimization opportunities to reduce the latency Scoping/Effort Estimates: contribute to solution scoping and effort sizing with a cross-functional team.
Research: stay informed on technology trends.
Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in engineering or Computer Science or equivalent OR master’s in computer applications or equivalent 5+ years of experience in service/framework development using Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Microservices along with Bigdata technologies like Hadoop, Hive and spark Technical Skills: Demonstrated hands on experience in Java/J2EE application design, software development, and automated testing, 4+ years of Web Services development experience – REST/SOAP/GRAPHQL 4+ years of experience with Spring, Spring MVC/Spring Boot/Spring cloud is required 4+ Agile development experience Expertise in JVM memory management and multithreading concepts Experience with ORM tools like Hibernate/JPA Experience with microservice architecture and distributed (multi tiered) systems.
Experience with Kafka, RABITMQ Expertise on Bigdata technologies like Map-Reduce, Hive, Spark Experience on unit testing tool like Karate, Selenium, Cucumber, Mockito and Junit Exposure in reactive/ asynchronous programming.
Exposure in building cloud native applications.
Expertise with logging and monitoring tools Splunk, Dynatrace Proficient in writing SQL and PL/SQL Expertise in objected oriented analysis, design and design patterns Experience with continuous integration/deployment(Jenkins, XLR ,GITHUB actions etc.
) Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners Strong written, verbal communications, presentation skills, problem solving and analytical skills Willingness to understand the business and participate in discussions around project requirements Knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, GCP is good to have 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.
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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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