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.

We are looking for a Web Engineer that has a solid understanding of JavaScript, NodeJS, React, and emerging JavaScript frameworks, to work on 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 software engineer at Amex.

You will be part of the Demand Generation & 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.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver features for end-to-end web application development on a multi-functional team
• Learn how to build applications using our in-house frameworks
• Collaborate with product owners to understand business needs and participate in refining stories
• Embrace code review, pair programming, and process innovation to better yourself and the team
• 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 our team and applications

Qualifications

• Have at least 7+ years of experience in Web Development
• Have solid experience with front end frameworks and state management with or similar to React. js / Redux
• Have a strong understanding of NodeJS, Jest, Mocha, Rest, Graph SQL, Express
• Have experience with modern JavaScript coding, open source ecosystem, and development practices
• Have a passion for providing the best customer experience, and is comfortable optimizing for accessibility and performance
• Are comfortable working in an environment based on Agile development methodologies and DevOps principles
• Take initiative to mentor engineers, and 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 grow!

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

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