Frontend Software Engineer - job 1 of 2

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express. 

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.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer with strong experience in mainly frontend but also has interest and some working knowledge of building API’s for web applications that will be used by tens of millions of American Express customers around the world. We want someone with strong technical skills including React.js and Java and/or .NET. Should enjoy solving tough problems and working with new technologies to design and execute. You should not be shy about sharing your ideas and be enthusiastic about user experience and high quality.

You’ll be working in a fast-paced environment as part of the Web Engineering team whose directive is to develop new products and platforms for American Express customers. You should be familiar with modern software development methodologies and be able to dive deep and rapidly iterate on ideas despite ambiguity.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to an agile team by driving user story analysis and feature grooming, solutioning, and developing thorough features and test-cases.
• Ensure excellent application usability through careful manual testing
• Collaborate with Product team, development team and backend teams to plan, test and release high-quality features in the apps.
• Assists in estimation and assessment of feasibility of features.
• Follow and help cultivate consistent development standard methodologies
• Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals
• Participate in code reviews and automated testing
• Debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation
• Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
• Automate deployments in test or production environments
• Automatically scale applications based on demand projections

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• 1-4 years of technical experience in a software development organization with a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Science Computer Science, Engineering or other related disciplines
• Strong programming knowledge in JavaScript/TypeScript and React
• Experience with Angular is a plus.
• Moderate programming knowledge in Java / .NET (nice to have)
• Experience in developing REST APIs. (nice to have)
• Experience working in JavaScript and able to demonstrate good JavaScript knowledge.
• Experience with Micro front-end architecture.
• Able to demonstrate solid web fundamentals & knowledge of DOM
• Experience writing adaptive and responsive UI applications
• Knowledge of HTML5, React, Redux, Angular, Node, GraphQL
• Experience with automated tested and unit testing such as Cypress, Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, etc.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment and their frameworks such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, etc.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience with Agile software development methodology (SCRUM)
• Has exposure to a variety of distributed infrastructure technologies and systems
• Deals well with ambiguous/under defined problems; able to think abstractly
• Ability to adapt to a constantly evolving environment and distributed teams

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.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• 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 working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 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.

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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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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