Senior Software Engineer II

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, youll 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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Responsible for contacting clients with overdue accounts to secure the settlement of the account. Also they do preventive work to avoid future overdues with accounts that have a high exposure.
Join Team Amex and lets 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. 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 on #TeamAmex

The U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.
Description:

We are looking for a Senior Engineering that has a solid understanding of Javascript, NodeJS, ReactJS, and emerging javascript frameworks, to lead an agile cross-functional team that values collaboration, automation, and innovation. If youre a JavaScript enthusiast looking to build highly scalable, performant and fault-tolerant applications, come grow your skills as a technical leader at Amex. 

You will be part of the Card Shop group, which focuses on and strives to provide best in class user experiences to our customers when they shop for American Express products. Your work will be at the frontline of American Express’ commitment to excellence to our customers, and thus highly visible, impactful, and rewarding. 

What to expect:

• Lead end-to-end web application development on a multi-functional team
• Learn how to build applications using our in-house frameworks and help coach others along the way
• Collaborate with product owners to understand business needs and turn them into acceptance criteria
• Mentor teammates through code reviews, pair programming, and process refinement
• Optimize code for accessibility, performance, availability.
• Increase the confidence in our deployments by writing tests, contributing to reliability frameworks, and finding automation opportunities
• Investigate and resolve production issues with the help of our site reliability team
• Innovate and implement new technologies in an effort to improve multiple teams and applications
  

• Have at least 8 years of experience in Web Development
• Are proficient with front end frameworks and state management with or similar to React.js / Redux
• Are proficient in building APIs, with NodeJS, Jest, Mocha, Rest, GraphQL, Express
• Are experienced with modern JavaScript coding, open source ecosystem, and development practices
• Have a passion for providing the best customer experience, and are comfortable optimizing for accessibility and performance.
• Can translate business requirements into scalable solutions, and break down and plan the execution
• Like to mentor engineers and help create the best developer experience
• Are comfortable working in an environment based on Agile development methodologies and DevOps principles
• Take initiative to collaborate with others in order to find solutions to the teams problems
• Are excited about innovation and automation
• Want to join a team that is always trying to improve and growth
  

• Competitive base salaries 
• Bonus incentives 
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) 
• 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