Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace

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At American Express, you'll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact-every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company's success. Together, we'll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world's best customer experience every day. And we'll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

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Description

The Digital Workplace Journey Transformation team is looking for a highly skilled and enthusiastic Senior Engineer with an enquiring mind and tons of energy to actively provide deep technical knowledge and contribute to the engineering team that will develop complex, large-scale enterprise applications. You will be part of a scrum team, building core features and functions to transform colleague journeys through leading-edge technologies involving the art of programming, transitioning seamlessly between front and backend coding. This candidate will not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day.

Responsibilities

Function as member of an Agile Scrum team by contributing to building world class software through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation). Your duties will include (not limited to):

• Developing complex, large-scale applications supporting automation and colleague journey transformation
• Perform hands-on software development, typically spending the majority of time writing code, API specs, doing proof of concepts, and conducting code reviews
• Drive technical aspects of software development (architecture, design, and development of systems) for assigned applications
• Partners with business representatives and other internal teams and technical product managers to design, build and test new products and features
• Translate user experience mock-ups and designs into functioning applications
• Debug/analyze software components and identify code fixes for remediation
• Ability to create and articulate technical documentation for the software produced
• Willingness to express new insights, concerns, and opinions directly to wider team including tech and business partners
• Mentor other engineers; You will be cited as the inspiration for other engineers on the team.

Leadership

• Mentor and guide junior team members to succeed within the team
• Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analyzing your workflow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results
• Do it the right way by influencing team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking
• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals
• Communicate frequently, candidly, and clearly by documenting technical decisions for future reference
• Put enterprise thinking first by reusing what others have already built
• Make collaboration essential through detailed code reviews

Qualifications and Skills

6+ years of software development experience in a professional environment such as:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience
• Hands-on coding experience with front-end development using React/Javascript and/or combination of coding experience with server-side development using Java/Kotlin as the primary language and exposure to related technologies like Spring. Seeking general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework.
• Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate
• Experience in working on RESTful API design and implementation
• Experience in JVM languages e.g. Kotlin is a plus
• Experience in Python is a plus
• Understanding of code versioning tools such as GIT and code build tools like IntelliJ, JBoss, etc., including the ability to setup CI/CD pipeline
• Experience in test driven development and unit testing
• Knowledge of database technologies, such as MySQL, PostgeSQL, or MongoDB

Salary Range: $103,000.00 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.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• 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 work arrangements and schedules with hybrid and virtual options with Amex Flex
• 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 our Colleague Benefits Site.

At American Express, you'll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact-every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company's success. Together, we'll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world's best customer experience every day. And we'll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

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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