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Sr Software Engineer I

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Sr Software Engineer I in USA

  • American Express
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and manage enterprise messaging, event distribution, system integration, and shared technology platforms.
  • Build self-service onboarding portals, topic and schema management consoles, monitoring views, APIs, and backend services across the full stack.
  • Architect high-throughput, low-latency event-driven systems using publish/subscribe, queue-based, and streaming patterns.
  • Lead platform modernization and migration from legacy middleware and monolithic application servers to containerized cloud-native microservices.
  • Engineer multi-region resiliency, failover, dead-letter handling, duplicate detection, and failure isolation.
  • Own CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, release verification, rollback procedures, observability, alerting, and data-quality reconciliation.
  • Evaluate LLM and AI/ML applications for schema generation, anomaly classification, and reconciliation summarization with human-in-the-loop controls.
  • Write production code and unit tests, participate in design reviews, uphold engineering and security standards, and mentor junior engineers.
  • Partner with product, infrastructure, business, and senior leadership stakeholders to translate objectives into technical designs and communicate trade-offs.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or another technical discipline is preferred.
  • 10+ years of software development experience.
  • Experience with full-stack development, enterprise messaging and streaming platforms, and large-scale highly resilient systems.
  • Production cloud experience, preferably AWS, including container orchestration, streaming and storage services, secrets and parameter management, and infrastructure as code.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as Harness, Jenkins, or GitLab and container platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or OpenShift.
  • Strong data skills involving relational databases, SQL/PLSQL, NoSQL stores, XML/XSD/XSLT, JSON schema design, and data-quality or reconciliation engineering.
  • Experience with observability and log analytics tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, or ELK.
  • Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, ML, cognitive OCR, or agentic AI automation; Python experience is a plus.
  • Experience with microservices, service mesh technologies, high-throughput applications, and performance engineering.
  • Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS, NodeJS, NextJS, Java, Python, Go, React, Envoy, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, JSON, Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis, API development, and cloud infrastructure is preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead technical work across distributed onsite and offshore teams.
  • Strong analytical, business analysis, communication, technical judgment, and ability to interpret technical and business objectives.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salaries and bonus incentives.
  • 6% company match on the 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 of paid parental leave for all parents for pregnancy, adoption, or surrogacy.
  • Access to global onsite wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors, depending on location.
  • Free confidential counseling through the Healthy Minds program.
  • Career development and training opportunities.

Salary: $123k - $215k/yr

American Express

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