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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.
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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.
Key Responsibilities Software Development
• Entry level ability in software development
• Function as member of a software engineering team by contributing to software builds
through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and
documentation)
• 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
• Adhere to security and regulatory best practices
Leadership
• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging
status quo and demonstrating risk taking
Scope of
Impact/Influence
• Accountable to team for completing work you’re leading and work you are doing as
agreed upon
• Accountable to team for delivery of quality work
Education &
Experience
Up to 6 years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or
comparable experience such as:
• Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods
• Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as
appropriate
• Hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated
testing
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
• Confirmed experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related
experience required; advanced degree preferred
High-performing
Behaviors
• Recognizes opportunities to adopt innovative technologies to enable business
capabilities
• Keeps up-to-date on current research and technology in the industry
• Recognizes the importance of collaboration to achieve objectives
• Clearly communicates ideas and concepts to others
• Finds opportunities within projects and acts on own initiative without being prompted,
including making appropriate decisions as necessary
• Provides feedback to team members in code reviews
• Influences team members with creative changes and continuous improvements
Salary Range: $70,000.00 to $135,000.00 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.
American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.
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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