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.

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.

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.

Do you have the ability to put together unique cutting-edge customer facing solutions that increase business value and customer engagement by leveraging strong architectural and UX principles and that are data driven? Do you have a unique combination of deep technical knowledge, business acumen and strong interpersonal skills to help influence and drive results across a diverse organization.

American Express is embarking on an exciting digital transformation driven by an energetic team of high performers. This group is nimble and creative with the power to shape our Technology and Product roadmap. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative products and services at a rapid pace, serving our customers seamlessly across the globe through various channels, join our team!

We are looking for a great software developer who understands the fundamentals of web and is good in JavaScript as well as Java. Your primary focus will be on working with the architects and engineers in the organization to uplift web applications to use latest web technologies such as React and bring modern web practices to production applications impacting millions of customers.

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Serving as a core member of an agile team that drives user story analysis and elaboration, designs and develops responsive web applications using the best engineering practices
• Performing hands-on software development, typically spending most of time actually writing code and unit tests, doing proof of concepts, conducting code reviews, and testing in ongoing sprints
• Performing ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast track concepts, and delivering continuous improvement
• 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 culture of innovation, ideas, and continuous improvement
• Challenging status quo, demonstrate risk taking, and implement creative ideas
• Manage your own time, and work well both independently and as part of a team.
• Good attitude, communication, willingness to learn and collaborate
• Drive automation and ensure automated test scripts are completed for new features.
• Perform all aspects of software development for assigned applications, including developing prototypes, writing new code and creating API's.
• 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, back-end and other front-end engineers to implement versatile solutions to tricky web development problems
• Embrace emerging standards while promoting best practices and consistent framework usage.

• BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline or equivalent 3-4 years of work experience
• 3-5 years' experience working in Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Struts, and able to demonstrate strong Java knowledge
• 3-5 years' experience working in JavaScript, React, Redux and able to demonstrate strong JavaScript knowledge
• Able to demonstrate good web fundamentals & knowledge of DOM
• Experience writing adaptive and responsive UI applications
• 2-3 yrs hands on experience in building REST APIs
• 1-2 years 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, including frameworks such as Selenium, WebDriverIO, Cucumber, JUnit, Mockito
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery(CI/CD) environment and their frameworks
• 2-3 yrs working in an Agile or SAFe development environment is a plus
• Experience in Redis, Kafka in the context of low latency and high transaction volume systems is a plus
• Experience in I18N and a11y is a plus.
• Experience with angularJS and various migration paths is a huge plus

Currently, the Company requires that colleagues, effective March 1, must have received a booster shot against COVID-19 in order to work in or visit any of our US offices, subject to legally required accommodations. If the role you are applying for is designated as hybrid or onsite, you will be required to visit our offices.

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

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

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.