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Senior Pega Software Engineer I

American Express, Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States


Senior Pega Software Engineer I

Sunrise, FL, United States(Hybrid)

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.

The Servicing Experiences Technology (SET) organization enhances Servicing Experiences by building smarter platforms with seamless automation and AI-driven insights - empowering Colleagues and Customers alike.

Responsibilities

Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large scale enterprise applications using BPM software like Camunda, PEGA, Activiti, Appian.

Extensive experience in object oriented design, full stack web development and building REST APIs in Java.

Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments

Establish and accepts responsibility for engineering practices across teams.

Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices.

Promote, empower, and practice servant-leadership.

Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.

Drives the team's technical improvements and roadmap.

Takes accountability for the technical maturity of the team.

Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.

Maintain excellent documentation for the software design and architecture.

Review Product features and ensure it in line with platform architecture and standards.

Collaborating with architects, product owners, delivery managers, engineers and other scrum teams to deliver a quality product.

Encouraging innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity.

Qualifications

7+ years of work experience developing large scale applications.

Experience delivering advanced solutions for a high-volume, multi-tiered, distributed web application.

Experience with various architectures: Domain Driven Design, Microservices, Cloud Native and Event Driven Architecture.

Strong proficiency in building component-based applications with modern frontend frameworks, such as React, Vue, or Angular.

Experience with testing: Unit Testing, Test Driven Development, Integration Testing, Load Testing, Test Automation.

Experienced in utilizing Grafana, Jaeger, Splunk to monitor and troubleshooting application systems.

Experience in using NOSQL databases and distributed messaging systems like Kafka etc.

Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.

Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies.

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

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values (https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/company/who-we-are/) 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.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

Competitive base salaries

Bonus incentives

6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)

Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program

Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit out Colleague Benefits Site (https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/colleagues/benefits) .

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Job Info

Job Identification 26002816

Job Category Technology

Posting Date 04/22/2026, 04:00 AM

Apply Before 04/30/2026, 04:00 AM

Degree Level Bachelor's Degree

Job Schedule Full time

Job Shift Day

Locations 1500 NW 136th Avenue, Sunrise, FL, 33323, US(Hybrid)

Salary Range $123,000.00 to $215,250.00 annually + bonus + benefits

Career Area Technology