Senior Front End Engineer - React - Digital Payments

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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.

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We're looking for an experienced engineer to work on the mobile payments solutions that will be used by tens of millions of cardholders around the world. We want someone who is super creative and enjoys solving tough problems. You should be able to come up with brilliant solutions that no one else can, and be obsessive about UI/UX design and user experience.

You'll be part of the Digital Payments Engineering team whose mandate is to develop new products and platforms for American Express customers. Payments Engineering's aim is to build interactive experiences at all touch points of a consumer's journey whether before, at, or after the time of purchase. The products will range from new payment vehicles and partnerships with other payment entities to interactive web experiences.

This is an opportunity to work in a fast-paced, agile environment within a Fortune 100 company where you can directly impact real $$$$ in revenue growth and operational savings. Your primary responsibilities will be to work on a team of engineers in developing web applications. You'll work with product managers to help define product direction, provide thought leadership on emerging technologies and create best of breed desktop and mobile web experiences that will set the standard for future development. You should be familiar with modern software development methodologies, and be able to dive deep and rapidly iterate on ideas despite ambiguity.

This is an opportunity to work on the latest web technologies and influence how millions of people interact with their cards, their merchants, and their money.

Responsibilities:

• Perform hands-on architecture, design, development, and testing
• Drive user story analysis and elaboration, design and develop web applications, test and build automation tools
• Bring a culture of innovation, ideas, and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with product managers, back-end and other front-end engineers to implement web applications
• Optimize components for maximum performance across devices and browsers
• Drive automation and ensure automated test scripts are built.
• Willingness to adopt new technologies and passion for learning
• Utilize best-of-breed technologies to build a layered, component-based architecture over existing American Express technologies
• Be highly motivated and maintain a positive, "can-do" attitude in a fast moving environment
• Foster the spirit of collaboration across multiple internal teams

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science/Engineering or 5-7 years of equivalent experience in related disciplines
• Demonstrated technical capabilities and ability to work collaboratively and effectively with a range of stakeholders
• Worked in a product company
• Attention to detail and strong organization skills
• Experience working in high-performing development teams using agile methodologies and tools
• Experience in React, Redux, JavaScript (ES6+), Typescript, HTML 5, CSS, JQuery, JEST
• Experience writing adaptive and responsive UI applications
• Experience using Babel, Webpack and NPM
• Experience using test automation tools like Selenium, Cucumber and Puppeteer
• Experience in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns
• Hands on experience with performance testing and tuning web applications.
• Understanding of reactive and functional programming
• Understanding of security fundamentals - JWE, JWS, JWT, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0
• Knowledge of Angular is a plus
• Knowledge of development of mobile native applications(Android and iOS) is a plus
• Knowledge of developing trends and emerging standards in payments domain is a plus

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.

If the role you are applying for is designated as hybrid or onsite, you will be required to demonstrate that you have completed your primary COVID-19 vaccination series (i.e., 2 doses for Moderna/Pfizer and 1 dose for J&J) and, for medically eligible* colleagues, a booster shot, to work in or visit any of our offices. This requirement is subject to legally required accommodations.

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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