Senior Engineer -Agile UI Development

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American Express Global Payment Network authorizes and processes all of the company's customer card transactions. It is the critical back bone for this processing and operates in a near real-time, low-latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year.

American Express is making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to allow the company to meet its ambitious global growth agenda. American Express is looking for strong leaders and engineers to be part of high energy and efficient teams that will build and support our next generation card network systems.

As a Senior Engineer, you will be a hands-on engineer building highly available and scalable distributed system on the cloud that contribute and drive our Global Card Network platform. Your primary responsibility is to design and develop capabilities for our next generation distributed transaction platform, supporting Amex card transactions while leading a team of engineers in Agile teams. You will work closely with other Senior Engineers, Product Owners, and architects to achieve your goals.

Responsibilities Include:

• Function as a leader on an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices. Lead code reviews and automated testing
• Contribute to high level design as well as detailed design of complex subsystems with emphasis in high availability and low latency.
• Perform technical aspects of software development for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments
• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation
• You will constantly pursue and learn industry leading/innovative technologies and solutions and build POC's to experiment new technologies, databases, and other application infrastructure. Be acutely aware of enabling technologies and open-source products to build low latency distributed systems.
• Takes accountability for the success of the team achieving their goals, contribute to enable them to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.
• Drives the team's strategy and prioritizes initiatives
• Influence team members by challenging status quo, demonstrating risk taking, and implementing innovative ideas
• Collaborate with peer technology and scrum teams across different locations.

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ years of UI development experience is a must
• 4+ years of software development experience (Java preferred)
• Recent experience in developing front-end applications using React and Redux is must. Another java script tech stack is a plus.
• Has hands-on expertise with modern web frontend development experience with modern JavaScript tooling (React and Redux)
• Computer Science / Information Systems degree, or equivalent with min 8+ years of professional work experience

Preferred

• Strong implementation experience using Java or node JS. Keen understanding of how to build highly performant systems with such languages.
• Experience with both Responsive and Adaptive Web Design
• Distributed System Management/tracing and monitoring
• Have experience in designing and building Cloud native applications. Experience in cloud platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift are a plus.
• Experience in using NoSQL databases and distributed messaging systems such as Redis, Kafka, Couchbase, Cassandra in the context of low latency and high transaction volume systems.
• Experience in building Restful APIs, with Event Driven and Reactive programming.
• Have hands-on experience in building and delivering large scale enterprise systems/products. Implemented critical aspects of such systems and have supported them in production environment
• Keen awareness of concerns in massively distributed systems and effective solutions.
• Experience working in DevOps teams and Scrums.
• Hands on experience using Jenkins, Git, Stash. Previous Continuous Integration (CICD) experience is a plus.
• Influence team members with innovator mindset and demonstrated risk taking
• Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
• Have excellent written and verbal communications skills. Create and deliver effective presentations to Senior Leadership.

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 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.

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

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