Engineer I

You Lead the Way. We ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

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 lets lead the way together.

How will you make an impact in this role

• Analyze feature requests and prioritize business, technical, compliance and maintenance activities with product owners
• Work with architects to devise solutions for business and technical needs
• Collaborate with product owners to understand business needs and conceive features to address them
• Solve production issues in collaboration with our production support team
• Work in a cross-functional team with other engineers to design, build, test and deploy web components and APIs in Java/JavaScript and potentially other languages
• Review colleagues code with an eye toward performance, reliability and maintainability
• Help our production support team address issues encountered in production and fix defects when discovered
• Continuously learn about new technologies and help keep the entire group abreast of industry developments and evolving best practices

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
• 4+ years of software development experience, to a large extent using JavaScript to build web apps both in the browser and on the server
• 4+ years of software development experience, to a large extent using Java
• Hands-on experience building public REST APIs
• Hands-on experience building browser applications using ES6 or a later version
• Hands-on experience building browser applications with one or more of the component-based frameworks
• Hands-on experience building web layouts with HTML5 and CSS
• Hands-on experience with Node-based developer tools like Grunt, Babel, and Webpack
• A working knowledge of modern web development (HTML, client and server-side JavaScript, CSS)
• A drive to stay up-to-date with the latest technology for web development, including new Java/JavaScript language feature and frameworks, containerization, and innovation in other languages/platforms
• Hands-on experience with Git and collaborative workflows (gitflow and other branching models, pull request-based code reviews)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using other JVM languages (Closure, Scala, Kotlin)
• Experience with DDD (Domain Driven Design)
• Experience in a fast-paced startup environment
• Contribution to open source projects
• Building and maintaining personal projects in public repositories like GitHub

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• 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

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.

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