AMEX - Sr Java Engineer/Sr Architect - REST API/Spring

Description:

- Responsible for all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications - performs hands-on architecture, design and development of systems.

- Mentors and manages a team of engineers.

- Functions as a senior member of an Agile/iterative development team, implementing consistent development practices - tools and common components.

- Identifies and proposes solutions to help simplify tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains.

- Contributes to blueprint and assists Product Owners with annual planning of feature sets that impact multiple platforms. Splits time between writing code and testing, in support of product/platform release sprints Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies.

- Embodies rebel with a cause - mentality by looking beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.

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

Qualification:

This high energy Senior Engineer must have:

- Software development experience

- Demonstrated experience with Agile or other rapid application development methods

- Experience managing entry level engineers

- Expertise in core Java

- Excellent knowledge on J2EE framework (Spring , Hibernate)

- Excellent knowledge on Object Oriented Programming Concepts

- REST framework (JSON & XML)

- Experience in developing web applications using Java technologies.

- Expertise in developing REST & SOAP clients.

- Strong experience in designing highly performant systems using industry best practices, tools and technologies like caching products (e.g. Memcached, MongoDB, Redis etc)

- Experience with implementing integrated automated release management using tools/technologies/frameworks like Maven, Subversion, code/security review tools

- Ability to effectively communicate across 3rd parties, technical and business product managers on solution design

- Ability to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems

- Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation

- Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities

- High energy, demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies, and takes pride in how fast they develop working software

- Advanced experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, message queuing, and relational databases

- Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages.