Sr Software Engineer II - Enterprise Architecture

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Location:

Atlanta, GA, United States;
Phoenix, AZ, United States;
New York, NY, United States Salary: $123000 - $215250 annually + bonus + benefits

Job Function:
Engineering & Architecture

Schedule:

Full time

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Hybrid Career Area:
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American Express Description About  Enterprise Architecture:
Enterprise Architecture is an organization within the Chief Technology Office at American Express and it is a key enabler of the company’s technology strategy. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:

Architecture as Code: this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.

Architecture as Design: this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.

Governance: this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards, and developing innovative tools that automate controls to ensure compliance.

Colleague Enablement: this pillar is focused on colleague development, recognition, training, and enterprise outreach. Responsibilities Design, develop, and deliver scalable, high-quality software solutions across the full stack, leveraging Java and Python for enterprise-grade platforms and services

Lead the architecture and implementation of distributed systems, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability

Own end-to-end delivery of features—from design and development to deployment, monitoring, and support in production environments

Act as a senior member of an Agile team, driving best practices in coding standards, testing, documentation, and continuous delivery

Mentor and guide junior engineers, providing technical leadership through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing

Collaborate closely with architects, product managers, and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions

Build and evolve RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems, ensuring strong service contracts and backward compatibility

Champion engineering excellence by improving CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and developer productivity

Proactively identify system bottlenecks, debug complex issues, and drive root-cause analysis with long-term fixes

Design systems for scalability, resilience, and observability, including monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies

Contribute to cloud-native adoption, including containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and auto-scaling architectures

Influence technical direction and challenge the status quo by proposing innovative, pragmatic solutions

Take ownership and accountability for delivering high-impact outcomes aligned with team and organizational goals

Qualifications6+ years of professional software development experience with strong expertise in Java and working knowledge of Python for backend or data-driven applications

Deep experience with Java ecosystems and frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, or equivalent

Proven experience in full-stack development, including backend services and modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or similar)
Strong experience building RESTful APIs, microservices architectures, and service-to-service integrations

Solid understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, scalability, and performance optimization

Hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) and/or No

SQL databases (Cassandra, DynamoDB, MongoDB)

Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc.)Experience with messaging and streaming platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or…