Software Engineer - React-JavaScript-Java

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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.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• 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 enduser 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. 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience.
• 3+ years' experience working in JavaScript, React, Redux.
• 3 + years expertise with web fundamentals including DOM, HTML/XHTML, CSS, AJAX, JSON. - 4 + years Experience writing adaptive and responsive UI web applications.
• 2+ years experience working in Java, Spring, Spring Boot, and Struts.
• 2+ years experience in building REST APIs.
• 1+ years 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,
• 1+ years Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment and their frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years working in an Agile development environment.
• 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.

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