Software Engineer II

American Express · Chennai · 4+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-23

Tech stack: Express, Google Cloud, Java, Jenkins, Kafka, Linux, Python, SQL, Scala, Spring Boot, Unix

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About the role

The Enterprise Technology Services organization partners with every part of the American Express business to power the company’s growth and innovation with trust and efficiency, and drive competitive differentiation with speed. We support the delivery and operations of technology, digital, and data capabilities, platforms, and services globally. Specifically, our team is responsible for the company’s technology engineering, architecture, and infrastructure, providing 24x7 support to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality experience for customers and colleagues. We also provide product management for core enterprise platforms, and lead technology risk and information security, enterprise data governance and platforms, digital product and design, and enterprise AI platforms on behalf of the company.
Responsibilities:
- Drive user story analysis and elaboration, design and develop software applications, and test and build automation tools.
- Own all technical aspects of software development (architecture, design and development of systems) for assigned applications.
- Perform hands-on software development, writing code, API specs, doing proof of concepts, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints.
- Drive consistent development practices - tools and common components.
- Develop deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains.
- Work with technical product managers contributing to blueprints, and assisting with annual planning of feature sets.
- Identify opportunities for adopting new technology to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges.
- Effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on solution design.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field required; advanced degree is preferred.
- 4+ years of commercial software development experience
- Proficiency with distributed/multi-tier systems and application development, including excellent programming skills in languages such as Java, Python
- Experience in designing & developing API, Spring Boot, Micro-services, Kafka, Relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs, services, and microservices-based applications using Java frameworks such as Spring Boot or Vert.x, with hands-on experience in Kafka, relational and/or NoSQL databases, and distributed system architectures.
- Experience with Agile development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery, including working knowledge of various tools in the CI/CD pipeline
- Experience and proficiency on Big Data platforms (Scala/Spark/Hive SQL) and Big Data lake.
- Experience with automated release management using Maven, Salt, Git, Jenkins
- Experience in developing, hosting solutions on Google Cloud Platform- Google Cloud Storage and Big Query would be a plus.
- Good understanding of web technologies (HTTP, Apache) and familiarity with Unix/Linux
- Good understanding of data structures, algorithms and design patterns
- Great written communication and documentation abilities
- Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels across functions, from both technical and non-technical perspectives alike.
- Strong analytical & strategic thinking skills
- Ability to interpret technical /business objectives and challenges
- Porting/Software Configuration
- Agile Methodologies
- Software development/ testing
- Object oriented analysis and design across multiple platform
- Designing High Availability applications
- Preferred:
- Product Engineering Knowledge

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field required; advanced degree is preferred.
- 4+ years of commercial software development experience
- Proficiency with distributed/multi-tier systems and application development, including excellent programming skills in languages such as Java, Python
- Experience in designing & developing API, Spring Boot, Micro-services, Kafka, Relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs, services, and microservices-based applications using Java frameworks such as Spring Boot or Vert.x, with hands-on experience in Kafka, relational and/or NoSQL databases, and distributed system architectures.
- Experience with Agile development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery, including working knowledge of various tools in the CI/CD pipeline
- Experience and proficiency on Big Data platforms (Scala/Spark/Hive SQL) and Big Data lake.
- Experience with automated release management using Maven, Salt, Git, Jenkins
- Experience in developing, hosting solutions on Google Cloud Platform- Google Cloud Storage and Big Query would be a plus.
- Good understanding of web technologies (HTTP, Apache) and familiarity with Unix/Linux
- Good understanding of data structures, algorithms and design patterns
- Great written communication and documentation abilities
- Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels across functions, from both technical and non-technical perspectives alike.
- Strong analytical & strategic thinking skills
- Ability to interpret technical /business objectives and challenges
- Porting/Software Configuration Agile Methodologies Software development/ testing
- Object oriented analysis and design across multiple platform
- Designing High Availability applications
- Product Engineering Knowledge

Responsibilities

- Drive user story analysis and elaboration, design and develop software applications, and test and build automation tools.
- Own all technical aspects of software development (architecture, design and development of systems) for assigned applications.
- Perform hands-on software development, writing code, API specs, doing proof of concepts, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints.
- Drive consistent development practices - tools and common components.
- Develop deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains.
- Work with technical product managers contributing to blueprints, and assisting with annual planning of feature sets.
- Identify opportunities for adopting new technology to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges.
- Effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on solution design.

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