American Express

Software Engineer II

Posted On

July 30, 2025

Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

Aug. 24, 2025

Job Description

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Key Responsibilities

Contributes to design, development, troubleshooting, debugging, evaluating, modifying, deploying, and documenting software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.
Perform technical aspects of software development for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments
Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods
Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate
Hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing
Lead code reviews and automated testing
Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation
Leads the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
Explore and innovate new solution to modernize platforms
Collaborates with leadership across multiple teams to define solution requirements and technical implementation Engineering & Architecture’
Demonstrate technical expertise to help team members overcome technical problems
Solves technical problems outside of day-to-day responsibilities
Leadership
Takes accountability for the success of the team achieving their goals
Drives the team’s strategy and prioritizes initiatives
Influence team members by challenging status quo, demonstrating risk taking, and implementing innovative ideas
Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analysing your workflow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.

Minimum Qualifications/ Must Have

3+ years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience
Hands-on experience with Java 8 & above, Spring Boot, Junit, JavaScript, React JS, typescript, HTML, CSS.
Strong experience in developing UI mockups, experience in J2EE, RESTful, SOAP API development.
Experience in Event driven programming paradigm using Kafka.
Knowledge of Source control (Git, Bitbucket etc). CI/CD (Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, Mockito, JMeter)
Knowledge of VSS, IaaS, PaaS. Container Concepts (LXD, Docker).
Knowledge of Serverless architecture (Lambda) will be an additional advantage.
Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required, advanced degree.

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

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.

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

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