Software Engineer III - Global Commercial Services

Job Description

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of our next-generation expense management solution.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to refine product requirements and ensure readiness for development.
• Support and collaborate with team members, contributing to effective teamwork within the team, across guilds, and with cross-functional partners.
• Develop platform services following established architectural patterns such as domain-driven design and hexagonal architecture.
• Assist in evaluating and integrating SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Participate in Request-for-Comment (RFC) processes and proof-of-concept (POC) activities.
• Monitor and improve application performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Follow and contribute to team coding standards and system design conventions.
• Apply established development processes to support the team’s Software Development Lifecycle.
• Contribute to task estimation and execution, working with the team to meet milestone goals and address risks or blockers.
• Demonstrate progress on assigned work and support team milestone updates to stakeholders.
• Incorporate feedback to improve features and contribute to evolving engineering practices.

Qualifications

The Global Commercial Services team at American Express is looking for a talented Software Engineer III with strong full-stack development skills, a solid understanding of product development, and a track record of delivering high-quality software as part of a collaborative engineering team. This role will contribute to building our next-generation expense management platform, designed to provide actionable insights into business spending for our Small and Medium-sized (SMS) businesses and Corporate customers. We aim to deliver an innovative, scalable, and highly integrated expenses solution that transforms business spending into a seamless, insightful experience.

• Overall experience: 3–6 years of experience in software engineering and product development, primarily in individual contributor roles.
• Education: Bachelor of Science or Engineering, specializing in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Software Engineering disciplines (or equivalent experience).
• Experience in full-stack development including web UI, middleware, platform services, and exposure to infrastructure as code.
• Relevant certifications in software engineering, cloud, or related areas are a plus.
• Experience working as part of high-performing engineering teams, contributing to team success and collaboration.
• At least 2–4 years of experience in Frontend technologies for web, including Typescript and frameworks such as React, Angular, or similar.
• At least 2–4 years of experience in Backend and general-purpose programming languages and run-times such as Node.js, Python, Ruby, or Go.
• Exposure to mobile app development, either with cross-platform technologies such as React Native, or native development.
• Experience collaborating with product management and UX design teams to deliver user-focused features.
• Hands-on experience with cloud services for application development such as AWS (e.g., Lambda, S3, API Gateway, SQS, ECS, RDS).
• Hands-on experience with common storage technologies including relational and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with distributed databases such as Postgres-compatible systems (e.g., CockroachDB) is a plus.
• Experience developing data-driven UI components and dynamic forms is a plus.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and debugging tools such as Datadog or similar platforms.
• Experience writing, testing, and maintaining application code aligned with best practices and compliance standards.
• Demonstrated curiosity and interest in building scalable products; entrepreneurial mindset is a plus.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

About Us

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. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our 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.