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 BackingTM 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.
Make an Impact
Our tech teams power large scale platforms and products, enabling over 100 million global consumers and businesses.
Grow Your Career
Progress as either a people leader or technical expert, while increasing your domain expertise within a high-performing team.
Expand Your Skills
Use the latest languages, technologies, and delivery practices, and demonstrate your skills at internal hackathons, open-source days, and developer events.
Tech Career Pathways
Engineering & Architecture
In Engineering & Architecture on Team Amex, you can design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug work efforts for technology products, including customer-facing, business and internal end-user software, systems, and infrastructure.
Explore Careers In: Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering, AI + Machine Learning Engineering, Full Stack Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Mobile Engineering, and more.
Key Tech Stack and Skills: Java, Golang, Python, PySpark, Kotlin, React, NodeJS, DevOps, UI, Big Data, Cloud, Automation Testing, PAAS/IAAS, Machine Learning & AI, Kubernetes, Kafka, Spring Boot, and more.
Hiring In: US, UK, India
Digital Product & Design
In Digital Product & Design on Team Amex, you can define and prioritize new products, features and customer needs to enable development of solutions in a variety of settings, including product engineering, policies and standards, and program management.
Explore Careers In: Digital Product Analytics, Digital Product Management, Product Design, UX Writing, UX Research, and more.
Key Tech Stack and Skills: Product Road Mapping, Stakeholder Management, Salesforce, Programming Languages, and more.
Hiring In: US and UK
Service Delivery
In Service Delivery on Team Amex, you can work on functions in support of infrastructure and data center operations, application maintenance, service support and management, and vendor management.
Explore Careers In: Service Delivery Management, Service Assurance Engineering, Service Desk Analyst, DCI Tech, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and more.
Key Tech Stack and Skills: APIGEE, MQ/Solace, Major Incident Management Productions Support/Application Support, Cloud & Distributed Systems, Service Now, and more.
Hiring In: US, UK, India
Information Security
In Information Security on Team Amex, you can manage and provide expert advice on the selection, design, justification, implementation and operation of information security controls and management strategies.
Explore Careers In: Information Security Management, Cyber Security Management, Cyber Intelligence, Technical Risk Management, and more.
Key Tech Stack and Skills: Identity and Access Management (IAM), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Tech Risk Management, DevOps, Security Certifications (CISA, CCNA, CISSP), and more.
Hiring In: US, UK, India
Product Delivery & Integration
In Product Delivery & Integration on Team Amex, you can deliver a portfolio of large-scale product rollouts, scrum of scrums for integrated product rollouts, programs, projects, and ongoing services.
Explore Careers In: Agile Coaching, Product Delivery, Release Train Engineering, Project Management, Technical Project Management, Portfolio Management, and more.
Key Tech Stack and Skills: Agile Development, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum, Strategic Planning & Database Management, Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, and more.
Hiring In: US, UK, India
Tech Student Opportunities
Tech Internships
During your internship, you will have the chance to work on meaningful projects that positively impact our teams’ success, develop your technical skills, build your network through global learning sessions and interact with our senior leaders.
Program Duration: 10 weeks to 6 months (dependent on location)
When to Apply: July to November (application timelines vary by location)
Hiring In: US, UK, India*
Tech Graduate Programs
Upon joining Amex as a full-time colleague, you will be enrolled into our 1-year Graduate Full-Time Program. Over the course of the program, you will receive the tools you need to develop your career in Tech – from technical skills training and networking to global learning sessions, including bespoke educational talks from senior leaders across the enterprise. With opportunities in cybersecurity to software engineering and every role and language in between, our Tech teams are backed by American Express with the resources and support needed to make a tangible impact and grow their career.
When to Apply: July to November (application timelines vary by location)
Hiring In: US, UK, India*
Tech Apprentice Program
During your 18-month Software Engineering Apprenticeship, you will gain hands-on coding experience with additional opportunities such as networking with external start-ups, competing in hackathons, and supporting local community work. We'll provide each apprentice with continuous training and development, 20% virtual classroom-based training with 80% on-the-job learning.
Program Offered: September
When to Apply: October – February
Hiring In: UK
*The student recruitment process in India is done through universities.
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