Job Description
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 let's lead the way together.
How will you make an impact in this role?
- Lead the design and architecture of enterprise class platforms using industry best practices
- Write clean and concise code that is well-tested, easy to maintain, and consistent with existing patterns in our codebase.
- Collaborate with Product Owners to translate business designs and requirements into functioning applications.
- Developing React based applications and integrating them with back-end systems to support high-volume intranet applications.
- Collaborating with product owners, delivery managers, and other developers to deliver a quality product.
- Taking ownership and responsibility of the work at hand and shepherding code through to production.
- Actively pair-programming with teammates for collective code ownership and mentoring other engineers.
Minimum Qualifications
- Hands on experience (4+ years) in designing and developing React based applications
- Hands on experience in developing workflow components
- Experience of building REST APIs in Java and/or JavaScript
- Keen understanding of application architecture and design in a cloud-native environment
- Experience with Event Driven architecture and implementation.architecture and implementation.
- Ability to quickly identify coding and environment issues relating to design, stability, and scalability
- Strong experience with developing code for Relational and NoSQL databases
- Leadership experience in Agile development environment within a heavily matrixed organization
- Automated testing, build automation (Jenkins preferred), and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) across multiple pipelines
- Performance testing experience including root cause analysis and resolution for complicated issues
- Willingness and ability to lead complex cross-team initiatives without direct authority
- Learn new technologies quickly, be able to mentor team members, and leverage new technology benefits to enhance existing software
- Strong sense of ownership and a big proponent of DevOps culture.
