Senior Software Engineer II – Global Commercial Services Technology

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🌵 Arizona, California, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $123k - $215.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

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American Express

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10,000+ employees

🏦 Banking

💸 Finance

🤝 B2B

Banking • Finance • B2B

American Express is a global financial services company that issues consumer, business, and corporate credit cards, operates payment and merchant services, and offers banking products such as savings accounts, certificates of deposit, and personal loans. It provides rewards and travel programs, corporate and B2B payment solutions, financial education and security services, and extensive cardmember and merchant support.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable backend services and APIs using Golang in AWS environments • Build microservices leveraging domain-driven design and modern architectural patterns such as hexagonal architecture • Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to define service contracts and platform capabilities • Mentor engineers and foster collaboration across distributed engineering teams • Evaluate and integrate SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions • Participate in architecture reviews, RFCs, and proof-of-concept initiatives • Develop highly scalable, resilient, and observable distributed systems • Design and implement event-driven architectures and streaming solutions using Kafka and related messaging technologies • Integrate with workflow orchestration and durable execution frameworks such as Camunda and Temporal • Design and manage data systems across relational, graph, document, search, and OLAP databases • Build and operate cloud-native systems using AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, SQS, API Gateway, RDS, and S3 • Implement observability through logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing using Datadog • Establish backend engineering standards, best practices, and system design conventions • Plan, estimate, and deliver engineering work while mitigating risks and resolving blockers • Communicate progress and system capabilities to stakeholders and leadership

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong focus on backend systems • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field • Strong hands-on experience building backend services using Golang • Strong experience designing and deploying systems in AWS cloud environments • Experience building and operating distributed systems, APIs, and microservices architectures • Experience with domain-driven design and modern architectural patterns • Experience with relational and NoSQL databases • Experience with distributed Postgres-compatible databases such as CockroachDB • Experience integrating workflow orchestration platforms such as Camunda or Temporal • Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and performance optimization tools such as Datadog • Experience collaborating across cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers • Strong communication and problem-solving skills • Entrepreneurial mindset and passion for building scalable systems • Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required; the company will not pursue visa sponsorship • Experience integrating AI/ML models into backend systems is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus • Benefits