Campus Software Engineer

Position: Campus - Full Time - Software Engineer - 2027  )
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Location:

BURGESS HILL, WEST SUSSEX, United Kingdom Job Function:
Engineering & Architecture

Schedule:

Full time

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Hybrid Career Area:
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American Express Description Role

Summary:

At American Express, we empower technologists to learn, innovate, and make an impact from day one. As a Software Engineer in the full-time Technology Graduate Program, you’ll join a 12-month technical and leadership development experience while contributing as a full-time colleague on an Enterprise Technology Services team. You’ll build software, collaborate with Agile teams, and help deliver secure, reliable, customer-first technology that supports the future of payments.

About the Team:

Enterprise Technology Services teams build, operate, and modernize the technology that helps American Express deliver trusted, secure, and customer-first products and services. Software Engineers may support teams across backend engineering, frontend engineering, cloud engineering, mobile, AI/ machine learning, data-oriented engineering, infrastructure-adjacent engineering, or full-stack product development. You will design, code, test, improve, and support applications and services that help customers, colleagues, and partners get work done reliably and securely.

Responsibilities What Type Of Work Can You Expect?

Develop, test, and improve software applications as part of an Agile scrum team.

Write clean, maintainable code; participate in code reviews; and create unit tests with guidance from experienced engineers.

Identify opportunities to apply new technologies, automation, and engineering practices to solve real business challenges.

Partner with Product Managers, Senior Engineers, Quality Engineers, Architects, and business partners to understand requirements, prioritize features, and deliver value.

Work across different parts of the technology stack, such as APIs, services, microservices, user interfaces, mobile experiences, cloud platforms, or data-driven solutions.

Explore responsible use of AI-powered developer tools, machine learning concepts, and intelligent automation relevant to your team’s work.

Participate in graduate program learning, mentorship, networking, community, and career-development experiences while building your full-time career at American Express.

What You’ll Learn:

How software is built and delivered “the Amex Way,” including structured onboarding, developer bootcamp concepts, code quality, testing, and secure engineering practices.

How Product, Engineering, Quality, Security, and business partners collaborate from idea to production.

How to translate customer or business needs into technical solutions while balancing quality, resilience, usability, and risk.

How to communicate progress, ask effective questions, and share technical work with both technical and non-technical partners.

How to grow through mentorship, feedback, technical learning, leadership exposure, and a strong graduate cohort community.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

Must have earned a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or another technical field before the full-time start date.

Students must have a graduation date between December 2026 and June 2027

Experience developing products or projects in an academic, personal, internship, research, open-source, hackathon, or professional setting.

Exposure to backend engineering, frontend engineering, cloud engineering, mobile engineering, AI / machine learning, data engineering, API development, or full-stack product development.

Familiarity with Java, JavaScript, React, Type Script, Python, C#, Go, Kotlin, Node.js, REST APIs, SQL, Spring, or similar frameworks and tools.

Exposure to cloud-native…