Senior Software Engineer-GAR - job 1 of 6

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.

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

Enterprise Platforms are engines of growth for the company providing capabilities that power almost all key customer facing experiences to our Credit Card, Loan and Banking customers. One of key objectives Enterprise Platforms are driving at is develop a best-in-class Product Catalogue that would enable American Express to launch new customer facing products and experiences with unparalleled flexibility and dramatically improved speed to market globally across all countries American Express operates in.

Our mission is to accelerate the pace of financial innovation and build new financial products for American Express at unprecedented speed by streamlining the process of launching and iterating on financial products.

As a Full Stack Engineer, you will be responsible for building compelling user interface as well as backend APIs for integrating with dozens of internal systems. These interfaces power user journey for internal users that create new customer experiences, determine pricing and create/manage marketing offers. You will achieve this using latest and greatest open-source technologies and frameworks that facilitates developer productivity without compromising on quality at enterprise scale.  

You’ll apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders on a daily basis to stay focused on common goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. We welcome diverse perspectives and people who are not afraid to challenge assumptions. Our engineers are expected to involve themselves in the full product lifecycle and share their opinions about the direction of our products. Are you passionate around solving business problems through innovation and sound engineering practices?

Here is what you can expect to do in this role:

• Function as senior member of an Agile scrum team helping drive consistent development practices (tools, testing, common components, and documentation)
• Spend ~50% of time writing code and testing, and remainder of time managing team and stakeholders through ongoing product/platform release sprints
• Analyze/refine business features and user stories with Product Owner to support design and build activities.
• Develop new user-facing features using React.js
• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Take the API first approach to all development and build those APIs for zero touch consumption
• Build reusable cross platform components, front-end libraries and back end API's
• Collaborate with engineering teams: find opportunities to educate and learn from other mobile & web engineering teams 
• Develop deep understanding of tie-ins with other business processes and provider/consumer systems
• Take ownership ­­­and responsibility for the quality of the code from development to production
• Perform peer code reviews, making deliberate short and long-term design decisions and keeping constant focus on clearing technical debt items in the backlog
• Manage and mentor team of junior and senior engineers through ongoing sprints
• Research and apply leading UI and API technologies and libraries that enable agile product development.
• Implement the best-in-class software practices that produce maintainable code, including usability patterns, code style conformity, integration, unit testing, and code review
• Works closely with product owners on blueprints and quarterly planning of feature sets
• Communicate with stakeholders and business partners on the solution and the implementation aspects at the technical and/or functional level appropriate for the situation
• Seek continuous improvement in ways or working and delivery of quality software by participating in and acting on sprint and product increment level retrospectives
• Influence team members with innovator mindset and demonstrated risk taking

Minimum Qualifications:

• 6+ years of backend software development experience (Java preferred)
• 3+ years of development experience with front-end technologies and frameworks
• Recent experience in developing front-end applications using React and Redux.
• Proficiency in JavaScript ES6 including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Passion for learning new technologies, industry trends and deep technical curiosity
• Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing
• Collaborative work ethics to thrive on peer support and taking pride in of products and capabilities delivered as a team
• Ability to act as a change agent in rapidly evolving business requirements and platform roadmap
• Should have worked on RESTful API design and implementation.
• Ability to balance priorities and break down complex problems to manageable chunks that can be delivered incrementally
• Must be willing and able to express new ideas, concerns and opinions directly to wider team including tech and business partners in team meetings in person or video/tele conferencing.
• Strong experience with at least one NoSQL databases (Couchbase is preferable)
• Experience with using design language systems or similar
• Practitioner level understanding of CI/CD process and tools like – Git, GA, Docker, Jenkins, XL Release etc.
• Good communication skills - able to explain technical concepts to designers, product managers and business partners in ways that are meaningful to them
• Expertise in one or more automated testing tools such Sauce labs, TestNG, Selenium, etc.
• Experience with one or more logging and monitoring tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus
• Experience with BDD, TDD and/or ATDD

Preferred Qualifications:

• OpenAPI 3.0 and Swagger documentation
• Experience developing Data Driven Dynamic UIs using libraries/frameworks like react-jsonschema-form
• Experience with one or more rules engine related libraries/frameworks for frontend (json-rules-engine) and backend (Drools)
• Contributions to open-source or reusable libraries
• Event Driven and Reactive Programming (Vert.X or Spring Webflux) experience
• Experience of writing cloud native applications using OpenShift and Docker containers
• Strong analytical skills and knack of looking for non-obvious solutions
• Domain knowledge of Payments and/or Financial products
• Experience building microservices using domain driven design

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.

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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