American Express

Software Engineer II

Posted On

Aug. 13, 2025

Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

Sept. 7, 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.

We are looking for energetic, high-performing and highly skilled data engineers to help shape our technology and product roadmap. You will be part of the fast-paced, entrepreneurial Global Campaign Tracking (GCT) team under Enterprise Personalization Portfolio focused on delivering the next generation of global marketing capabilities. The team is responsible for marketing campaign tracking new accounts acquisition and bounty payments and leverages large scale data engineering technologies, such as such as Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, SQL, PySpark, GCP, Big Query, Data Proc, Hive, Kafka & Java.

Focus: Designs, develops, solves problems, debugs, evaluates, modifies, deploys, and documents software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain large scale data processing pipeline using PySpark Data Proc, Big Query and SQL.
Use Big Query and Data proc to migrate existing Hadoop/Spark/Hive workloads to Google Cloud.
Proficient in Big Query to carry out batch and interactive data analysis.
Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
Develops and tests software, including ongoing refactoring of code, and drives continuous improvement in code structure and quality
Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments

Minimum Qualifications

This high energy Engineer must have:

A bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
4 – 6 years of software development experience. Hands-on expertise with application design, software development, and automated testing.
Strong programming knowledge in SQL, PySpark, Data Proc, Big Query
Hands-on experience in Big Data technologies (Spark, Hive)
Understanding and experience with UNIX / Shell / Perl / Python scripting
Database query optimization and indexing
Web services design and implementation using REST / SOAP and Java is a plus
Experience collaborating with the business to drive requirements/Agile story analysis.
Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate

Bonus skills

Machine learning/data mining
Object-oriented design and coding

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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