Software Engineer II

Job Description

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

At American Express, our mission is to deliver the world’s best customer experience every day. At the heart of this mission is our Information Security organization, enabling exceptional experiences built on a foundation of trust, service, and security. We leverage advanced technologies and data-driven insights to stay ahead of an evolving threat landscape. We foster a culture of passion, curiosity, and courage—empowering you to innovate, grow, and help shape the future of a Fortune 100 company.

Trust. Service. Security.

• As a Software Quality Engineer, you will join our Global Merchant and Network Services Technology team that has embarked on building a highly available and scalable distributed systems on the cloud to support the company's long-term strategy and vision. Your primary role includes driving execution across multiple Scrum teams, ensuring product backlog priorities are clearly defined, aligned to stakeholder needs, and delivered with high quality.

Key Initiatives:

• Card Network Authorizations/Routing, Clearing and Settlement.
• ATM, Debit, Credit and Push Payment Transactions.
• Platform Engineering and Foundational Capabilities of distributed systems
• High Availability, Resiliency and Performance Engineering on Cloud

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated test frameworks, tooling, and comprehensive test strategies covering functional, integration, system, regression, API, and end-to-end testing.

• Collaborate closely with software engineers throughout the SDLC, participating in architecture reviews, design discussions, code reviews, and production readiness assessments.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership by contributing to automation code, troubleshooting complex issues, mentoring teams, and driving quality engineering best practices.

• Continuously evaluate, adopt, and promote industry-leading testing methodologies, open-source technologies, and innovative quality engineering solutions.

• Ensure quality standards are embedded throughout the development lifecycle through shift-left testing, continuous testing, and robust quality processes.

• Identify, analyze, troubleshoot, and drive resolution of defects across application, infrastructure, database, and integration layers.

• Define, monitor, and improve quality metrics, test coverage, observability, and release readiness criteria to ensure successful product delivery.

• Partner with engineering, product management, DevOps, and operations teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and resilient products while driving continuous improvement initiatives.

• Ensure timely delivery of high-quality releases and collaborate effectively with globally distributed teams and stakeholders to support next-generation platforms and services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Software Testing, Test Automation, or related software development disciplines.

• 2+ years of experience within the Payments, Banking, FinTech, Financial Services, or Card Network industry.

• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or other object-oriented programming languages, with a focus on test automation and quality engineering solutions.

• Proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining scalable automation frameworks for API, integration, and end-to-end testing using tools such as Rest Assured, Karate, Postman, or equivalent technologies.

• Strong SQL and data validation skills with hands-on experience testing transactional, financial, and large-volume data systems.

• Experience implementing and integrating automated testing within CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps practices and tools.

• Hands-on experience with monitoring, observability, and production support tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, Grafana, or similar platforms.

• Experience supporting high-volume, mission-critical systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

• Familiarity with developer platforms, API ecosystems, shared services architectures, and microservices-based solutions.

• Demonstrated experience working in Agile environments and contributing to the successful delivery of complex, cross-functional technology initiatives.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and root cause analysis skills, with the ability to identify quality risks and drive effective resolutions.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence outcomes across engineering, product, and business teams.

• Passion for continuous improvement, engineering excellence, customer-centric delivery, and fostering a culture of quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline preferred.

• Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.

About us

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our 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.

About

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:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.
We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.
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