At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared and Leadership Behaviors, 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.
American Express entered the travel agency business in 1915, and today is one of the world’s largest luxury travel and lifestyle service networks. The Travel & Lifestyle Services (TLS) business provides exclusive access, differentiated value, extraordinary service, and unrivalled expertise to Card Members seeking leisure or business travel, as well as a variety of lifestyle services. The Global Digital Customer Experience is a strategic focus area for growth within Travel and Lifestyle Services and there is significant continuing investment to transform and optimize our digital proposition and capabilities. American Express Travel Online not only drives direct revenue and cost savings but also plays an important role in overall Card product engagement, loyalty and satisfaction.
How you will make an impact in this role?
We are looking for a highly motivated, independent, and skilled engineer to architect, design and build the Android travel mobile app.
Software Development
1. Sets up the infrastructure and the development environments.
2. Writes and delivery high quality code
3. Leads review of colleague’s work
4. Builds monitoring dashboards and logging & alerting strategies.
5. Monitors system performance and availability and improves software quality through root cause analysis.
6. Deep understanding of infrastructure technologies and components
7. Has deep understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analysing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)
Leadership
8. Prepares and presents solutions and progress updates to product and technology leadership
9. Collaborates and communicates effectively across engineering and enterprise teams.
10. Mentors and coaches junior team members
11. Influences team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking.
12. Demonstrates increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.
Relevant experience and skills
13. Building Android Applications
14. Writing & Deleting code
15. Build tools like Gradle, GitHub Actions, and Circle CI
16. Continuous Integration patterns
17. Finding and fixing bugs
18. Asynchronous coding patterns
19. Performance Analysis and Optimization
20. Dealing with legacy code
21. Unit & Integration Tests
22. Open Source
23. Working in a globally distributed team
24. Self-starting and good at time management
25. Integrating with bespoke lovingly hand-crafted backend services from the days of yore.
26. Designing solutions for open ended problems
27. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
Relevant technologies that you may encounter on our team
28. Jetpack Compose
29. MVI Architecture
30. REST APIs
31. OkHttp
32. RAML API Documentation
33. Dagger
34. Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow
35. RxJava
36. GitHub Actions
37. Circle CI
38. Espresso & JUnit
39. Test Fakes
40. WireMock
Non-considerations for sponsorship:
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United Kingdom is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
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:
41. Competitive base salaries
42. Bonus incentives
43. Support for financial-well-being and retirement
44. Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
45. Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
46. Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
47. Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
48. Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
49. 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.