Engineer

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we're supporting our customers' financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what's possible - and we're proud to back each other every step of the way.

When you join Team Amex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. Here, you'll learn and grow as we champion your meaningful career journey with programs, benefits, and flexibility to back you personally and professionally. Every colleague share in the company's success.

Together, we'll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to our customers, communities, and each other every day. And we'll do it with integrity and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they truly belong.

Join #TeamAmex and let's lead the way together.

Engineers that join our team will be part of a fast paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering world class internally developed and vendor-based solutions. You will be challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our business partners. The role requires expertise in working with a team of talented engineers, architects, and third-party vendors to deliver world class capabilities for American Express.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Owns all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications.
• Performs hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems
• Collaborates with other engineers, senior engineers, architects, and others through ongoing sprints
• Functions as an active member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development practices - tools and common components
• Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
• Drive consistent development practices - tools and common components
• Typically spends 60-70% of time on requirement analysis, writing code and testing, working with stakeholders through ongoing product/platform release sprints
• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
• This "rebel with a cause" looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers' digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology of #TeamAmex.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in computer science, or equivalent 3-4 years of work experience
• 2-3 years' experience working in JavaScript and able to demonstrate good JavaScript knowledge
• Ability to demonstrate good web fundamentals & knowledge of DOM
• Experience writing adaptive and responsive UI applications
• Knowledge of HTML5, React, Redux, Express, Middleware with recent experience in ES6
• 2-3 years experience in writing JavaScript applications in Node.js
• Experience with REST based interfaces.
• 1-2 years experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) / Behavior Driven Development (BDD) practices, unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing, GUI testing, web service testing, and browser compatibility testing, including frameworks such as, WebDriverIO, Cucumber.JS
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery(CI/CD)
• 2-3 yrs working experience in an Agile or SAFe development environment
• Experience in a11y and I18N is a plus
• GraphQL knowledge and experience is a plus.
• Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods.
• Experience with design and coding with React technologies
• Prior experience with design and coding with JAVA J2EE technologies is a plus
• Good understanding of CI/CD processes leveraging Jenkins, XLR and Maven.
• Knowledge of APM tools, like ELK stack, Splunk as well as application monitoring tools like Prometheus and dashboarding with Grafana is a plus.
• Ability to proactively support colleagues and collaborates with them to help achieve targets.

High Performance Behaviors:

• Recognizes opportunities to adopt innovative technologies to enable business capabilities
• Keeps up to date on current research and technology in the industry
• Recognizes the importance of collaboration to achieve objectives
• Clearly communicates ideas and concepts to others
• Leads work effectively and acts on own initiative without being prompted
• Provides feedback to team members in code reviews
• Drive creative changes & continuous improvements
• Explores new automation techniques to refine the agility, speed and quality of engineering initiatives and efforts

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

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.

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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Non-considerations for sponsorship:

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

Considerations for sponsorship:

Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions