Digital jobs in United States

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. 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.

We are looking for a highly motivated, independent, and skilled engineer to architect, design and build the Android travel mobile app.

• Sets up the infrastructure and the development environments.
• Writes and delivery high quality code
• Leads review of colleague’s work
• Builds monitoring dashboards and logging & alerting strategies.
• Monitors system performance and availability and improves software quality through root cause analysis.
• Deep understanding of infrastructure technologies and components
• Has deep understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analysing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)

• Prepares and presents solutions and progress updates to product and technology leadership
• Collaborates and communicates effectively across engineering and enterprise teams.
• Mentors and coaches junior team members
• Influences team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking.
• Demonstrates increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.

• Building Android Applications
• Writing & Deleting code
• Build tools like Gradle, GitHub Actions, and Circle CI
• Continuous Integration patterns
• Finding and fixing bugs
• Asynchronous coding patterns
• Performance Analysis and Optimization
• Dealing with legacy code
• Unit & Integration Tests
• Open Source
• Working in a globally distributed team
• Self-starting and good at time management
• Integrating with bespoke lovingly hand-crafted backend services from the days of yore.
• Designing solutions for open ended problems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.

• Jetpack Compose
• MVI Architecture
• REST APIs
• OkHttp
• RAML API Documentation
• Dagger
• Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow
• RxJava
• GitHub Actions
• Circle CI
• Espresso & JUnit
• Test Fakes
• WireMock

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:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• 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

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