American Express

Senior Software Engineer - Gen AI, Python

American Express · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Financial Services · 10,001+ employees

5 h ago
Principal (10+ yrs) Full-time India
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About the role

Design and build intelligent, adaptive agentic AI systems that can plan, reason, and act across complex workflows. Partner with product and business teams to deliver scalable AI capabilities that improve decision-making and customer experiences within financial services.

What they look for

Python Large Language Models Applied Machine Learning Backend Systems API Development Data Pipelines Cloud Infrastructure Agentic AI Architectures Software Engineering Product Mindset

Requirements

Requires over 8 years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of shipping production-ready LLM or agentic systems. Candidates must possess strong backend fundamentals and experience with modern AI tooling and cloud infrastructure.

Full 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.

At American Express, AI is reshaping the future of commerce and redefining the experiences our commercial customers and card members expect. Within Amex Technology, we are building platforms, products, and governance that enable agentic AI systems to operate responsibly and at scale across the enterprise.

Our focus is on agentic AI development: designing intelligent, adaptive systems that can plan, reason, and act across complex workflows with appropriate levels of autonomy. These systems power autonomous workflows, decision support, and customer-facing experiences—while meeting the high standards for security, explainability, reliability, and compliance required in financial services.

We partner closely with product, design, and business teams to deliver agentic capabilities that reduce operational friction, improve decision-making, and transform how customers interact, transact, and grow.