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American Express’ Global Commercial Services (GCS) offers a wide range of card and payment programs, expense management tools, consulting services, business financing and cross-border payments solutions to small businesses, mid-sized companies and large corporations around the world. The Buyer Initiated Payments (BIP) is part of the B2B Payments within Global Commercial Services. The BIP team strives to provide flexible and digital financing solutions for business customers of all sizes in lead markets around the world and drive key business outcomes.
How will you make an impact in this role?
BIP supports B2B&International payments, one of the fastest growing segments of our business. We are looking for a high performing and enthusiastic Engineer to join our innovative BIP team in GCS at American Express in Burgess Hill. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies, develop scalable solutions, and contribute to the transformation of payment solutions for businesses. As a key member of our agile team, you will help shape the future of B2B financial services while delivering exceptional value to our partners and customers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Write clean, maintainable, testable and well-documented code while adhering to industry best practices and internal standards.
- Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and ensure code quality.
- Collaborate effectively with other engineers to deliver innovative solutions aligned with business needs.
- Partner with Product Owners to define requirements and plan work increments.
- Exhibit a positive attitude, strong communication skills, and a willingness to learn and collaborate.
- Support continuous integration and deployment pipelines to ensure efficient delivery of software updates.
- Identify and address performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and other technical challenges within the system.
- Stay informed about new technologies, trends, and integrate them into the development process where appropriate.
- Provide technical support and troubleshooting expertise for production systems as required.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum 4- 5 years of professional experience in software development.
- Proficient in Java and/or Kotlin
- Experience with microservices architecture and RESTful API design and development using Sprint Boot.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and containerization technologies like Docker or Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of database technologies, both relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra).
- Experience in software development with a strong emphasis on unit testing and TDD
- Understanding of security best practices in software development, including data protection and secure coding techniques.
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and related tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently or collaboratively in an agile environment and working with key product stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
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Mid-Senior level
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