Full Time
Staff Architect – American Express Remote Jobs
Job Description
Job Type: Staff Architect from home
Location: Arizona work from home
Company: American Express
Responsibilities:
- Run quick POCs to test ideas and construct rails for the engineering team.
- Assistance with quick development and deployment for engineers and project managers
- Actively participate in team and company-wide conversations about architecture and engineering.
- Add solutions and corporate architectural paradigms to the portfolio.
- Organize design reviews, lead high-level and detailed designs
- Work with leaders from different departments to grasp corporate concepts, objectives, and strategy as they pertain to your area of responsibility.
- Senior leaders should be informed of any changes or new directions in strategy.
- To guarantee that technical complexity are well understood and that high-quality solutions are implemented quickly, mentor engineers and solution architects.
Requirements:
- 8 years or more of significant hands-on Java expertise, as well as knowledge of backend or middleware processing.
- Extensive knowledge of designing and implementing highly reliable, resilient, and available large-scale cloud-native solutions.
- Strong background in high performance and throughput applications.
- It is preferred that you have knowledge with service mesh and microservices architectures.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, presentation abilities, leadership, and analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- A track record of working well with others and the power to influence without being told.
- Java, Go, Vert.x, React, Envoy, gRPC, Protobuf, Postgres, CouchBase, Cassandra, Redis, Consul, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitHub Actions, Drools, Elastic Stack, Kafka, Spark, and ML hands-on experience are desirable.
- Computer science, computer science engineering, or a related subject bachelor’s degree is necessary; advanced degree recommended.
Salary: between $170,000 and $255,000 per year plus perks, bonuses, and equity, if appropriate.
