Java Engineer & Senior Java Engineer


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Recruiter

American Express

Listed on

28th July 2017

Location

West Sussex

Salary/Rate

Excellent

Salary Notes

Excellent

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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American Express is a global service company, providing customers with exceptional access to products and experiences that enrich lives and build business success.

We’re committed to becoming the world’s most respected service brand and daily deliver extraordinary service to our customers, constantly reinventing our ways of working to ensure we offer rich rewards that redefine expectations for our clients and ourselves.

Vacancies exist for a Java Engineer and a Senior Java Engineer within Foreign Exchange International Payments Technology in American Express, Burgess Hill.

The position suits someone who can hit the ground running, form good working relationships quickly and also add value by introducing best practice design and techniques learned elsewhere.

The successful candidates will join existing agile teams to design, develop, troubleshoot, debug, evaluate, modify, deploy and document software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.

Applications for the senior role must have proven technical leadership skills that demonstrate helping set direction and mentoring members of the team.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

Required Skills:

- Software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience.

- Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods.

- Experience with design and coding across one or more object oriented platforms and languages.

- Java programmer (minimum Java 7, Java 8 preferable).

- Knowledge of Spring including MVC, AOP, Spring Boot, REST, XML, Microservice architecture, Cucumber, JPA, JUnit, Mocking, JSP, Oracle DB SQL, JEE and Struts.

- Desirable to have Front end web development skills such as HTML5, Javascript, AJAX, JQuery, CSS.

- Desirable to have cloud experience, especially Docker, Unix and service discovery tools.

- Desirable to have experience with performance and monitoring tools e.g. Splunk and App Dynamics.

- Application server deployment and configuration experience.

- Knowledge of automated build / continuous delivery, experience of Maven, Jenkins, Groovy and other JVM languages a plus.

- Hands-on experience with application design, software development and automated testing Exposure to distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.

- Current knowledge of payments industry desirable.

- Manages seamlessly across time zones, cultures, and band levels.

- Communicates effectively with Technical, Operational, and Business stakeholders.

- Must be willing and able to express new ideas, concerns and opinions directly to wider team in team meetings via teleconference.

- Attention to detail and accuracy are essential.

- Must be proactive, enthusiastic, flexible, and results driven.

- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field required.

We place great importance on doing what is right, what is best and what is innovative. And we continue seeking people to champion these values and beliefs as we grow. The world’s a big place, filled with big ideas and amazing people. And we want the best of them here at American Express. We’re interested in where you came from, but we’re even more excited about where you will go with American Express.

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