JavaScript Job: Software Engineer

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back. At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible — and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day.

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. Amex 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 on #TeamAmex.

• Contributes to design, development, troubleshooting, debugging, evaluating, modifying, deploying, and documenting software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.

• Serving as a core member of an agile team that drives user story analysis and elaboration.

• Design and develop responsive web applications using the best engineering practices.

• Performing hands-on software development, spending majority of time writing code and unit tests.

• Develop proof of concepts, conduct code reviews, and test in ongoing sprints.

• Performing ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts.

• Developing deep understanding of integrations with other systems and platforms within the supported domains.

• Manage your own time and work well both independently and as part of a team.

• Mentoring team members.

• Bring a mindset of innovation, ideas, and continuous improvement.

• Challenging status quo, demonstrate risk taking, and implement creative ideas.

• Bring a good attitude, great communication, willingness to learn and collaborate.

• Drive automation and ensure automated test scripts are completed for new features.

• Architect and build integration components and interfaces in collaboration with other colleagues.

• Demonstrate a passion for continuous learning and willingness to adopt new technologies.

• Work closely with product managers plus other engineers to implement versatile solutions for tricky web development problems.

• Embrace emerging standards while promoting best practices and consistent framework usage.

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. Amex 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 on #TeamAmex.

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) in order to work in or visit any of our offices. This requirement is subject to legally required accommodations.

Minimum Qualifiations:

• 3+ months of software development experience.

• 3+ months of experience working in JavaScript, React, Redux.

• 3+ months with web fundamentals including DOM, HTML/XHTML, CSS, AJAX, JSON.

• 3+ months experience writing adaptive and responsive UI web applications.

• 3+ months experience working in Java, Spring, Spring Boot, and Struts.

• 3+ months of experience in building REST APIs.

• 3+ months of experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) / Behavior Driven Development (BDD) practices, unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing, GUI testing, web service testing, and browser compatibility testing.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ months working in an Agile development environment.

• 3+ months of experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment and their frameworks.

• Experience in Redis or Kafka in the context of low latency and high transaction volume systems.

• Experience in I18N and a11y.

• Bachelors Degree

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

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.