Data Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 55,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Four-day work week

Ongoing coaching

Job summary

American Express in Tempe, AZ is seeking a junior Data Engineer to help our platform process large data volumes with speed and resilience. You will own parts of release cycles, trace data through Hugging Face services, and integrate SQL pipelines that handle events overnight.

As a junior engineer, you will work with LangChain concepts, contribute to reducing tech debt, and collaborate across teams to explain complex ideas to non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience translating LangChain complexity for a non-technical audience.
• Knowledge of AZ-specific regulations relevant to technology work.
• Collaborator who makes the junior review feel less like an exam.
• Proven leadership experience guiding junior-level initiatives.
• A point of view, held loosely and defended well.

Responsibilities

• Own the Decision Making release that Tempe leadership has circled on the calendar.
• Trace a technology number back through Hugging Face services until it finally adds up.
• Chase down the SQL integration that silently drops American Express events at midnight.
• Ship the Delegation delightfully-weird rewrite that pays down years of American Express technical debt.
• Prototype rough LangChain ideas fast, then decide which earn a place in American Express's stack.

Skills

LangChain awareness

Data storytelling

Regulatory knowledge (AZ)

Leadership experience

Collaboration across teams

Tools

Spark

SQL

Job description

Our platform processes enormous volumes of data, and we need a Data Engineer who can keep it fast and resilient. This is where 1 years becomes $55,000 - $86,000, where internship hours meet real technology ownership, and where American Express bets on you.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the Decision Making release that Tempe leadership has circled on the calendar
• Trace a technology number back through Hugging Face services until it finally adds up
• Chase down the SQL integration that silently drops American Express events at midnight
• Ship the Delegation delightfully-weird rewrite that pays down years of American Express technical debt
• Prototype rough LangChain ideas fast, then decide which earn a place in American Express's stack

What You'll Bring

• A point of view, held loosely and defended well
• Experience translating LangChain complexity for a non-technical audience
• Knowledge of AZ-specific regulations relevant to technology work
• A collaborator who makes the junior review feel less like an exam
• Proven leadership experience guiding junior-level initiatives

American Express is a thoughtfully-bold engineering shop in Tempe, AZ where Natural Language Processing and Apache Spark are treated as the same discipline. As a junior Data Engineer, you'll have a real voice in shaping how the technology team operates.

At American Express, you'll find $55,000 - $86,000, a four-day flex week option, and ongoing coaching to deepen your Accountability skills.

This opening was refreshed recently and remains an active priority for the team.