Java Software Engineer
Company: American Express
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $103.8k - $174.8k per year
Type: Full-time
Level: mid
Posted: 2026-02-19
About this role
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?
American Express is looking for a hands-on Java Software Engineer in the Risk Decision Technologies (RDT) organization for the Data Engineering team. The RDT team is responsible for cross-domain, configurable platforms to enable best-in-class risk management and American Express growth with strong governance. The Data Engineering team is embarking on a journey to build Next-gen data platform to support critical Risk Business functions like payments authorization, new account fulfilment, credit collections and underwriting risk.
Risk Data Management (RDM) platform is critical for Authorization Modernization Program (AMP) and powers the risk assessment engine with large volumes of data. The platform also includes cloud native applications to support low latency, scalable and modular architecture. This role of an Engineer will be an integral part of a team that designs and builds large-scale, cloud-native applications and drive us closer to the vision of a robust Risk data platform.
**As a Java Software Engineer, you will:**
- Function as a member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development and test practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation.
- Have primary focus on writing quality code, perform unit testing, test automation, quality assurance & automation testing in ongoing sprints.
- Build new micro-services that help m...