At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and leadership behaviours, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
Business Unit/Role Specific Info
As an American Express Software Engineer Graduate, you will work on building and maintaining highly scalable, reliable, and secure systems that power global applications. You’ll leverage modern cloud platforms, automation tools, and observability frameworks to ensure system performance, availability, and resilience across distributed environments.
What type of work can you expect?
1. Identify opportunities to improve system reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency through automation and modern engineering practices.
2. Monitor system performance, analyze metrics, and proactively address reliability risks.
3. Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures to avoid recurrence.
4. Work closely with Product Managers, Software Engineers, and Architects to ensure systems meet both functional and reliability requirements.
Minimum Qualifications
5. Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s degree program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or another technical field
6. Students must be graduating in 2026
Preferred Qualifications
7. Experience in developing products or projects either in an academic, professional, or personal setting.
8. Some entry level software development experience, design, or creative experience.
9. Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.
10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate work to team members and partners.
11. Familiarity in any of the following languages or applications, Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, Rust Go, Kotlin, Node.js, or React.
12. Our team will review completed applications on a rolling basis. We appreciate your patience while we consider your application and will be in contact with you.
Students must have a graduation of June-July 2026
In order for your application to be considered, please complete the below steps:
1. Click on ‘Apply Now’
2. Create a new username and password
3. Complete and submit your application
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the UK is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions. Those currently on a student visa are ineligible for the programme.
Our team will review completed applications on a rolling basis. We would encourage you submit your applications early as applications may close before the deadline.
We appreciate your patience while we consider your application and will be in contact with you. If you require any assistance with the completion of this process – or need any reasonable adjustments to be made – then please contact the Campus Recruitment Team on
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
13. Competitive base salaries
14. Bonus incentives
15. Support for financial-well-being and retirement
16. Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
17. Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
18. Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
19. Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
20. Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
21. Career development and training opportunities
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.