Full Stack Software Engineer - React - Enterprise Architecture

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, you’ll 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.

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues. 

About Enterprise Architecture:

Enterprise Architecture is an organization at American Express and it is a key enabler of the company’s technology strategy. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:

• Architecture as Code: this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.
• Architecture as Design: this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.
• Governance: this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards, and developing innovative tools that automate controls to ensure compliance.
• Colleague Enablement: this pillar is focused on colleague development, recognition, training, and enterprise outreach.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education & Experience:

Up to 2 years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:

• Understanding of Agile or other rapid application development methods
• Exposure to design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate
• Exposure to methods relating to application design, software development, and automated testing
• General Knowledge of distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
• Understanding of object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required

High Performance Behaviors:

• Learns and applies new technologies and techniques
• Demonstrates good analytical skills
• Recognizes the importance of collaboration to achieve objectives
• Clearly communicates ideas and concepts to others 

Knowledge/Skills:

• Hands on development experience with React, Redux, redux forms or other comparable UI frameworks.
• Hands on development experience with Java, spring boot or other comparable backend frameworks
• Able to understand and use complex data structures and associated components
• Designs, codes, tests, maintains, and documents applications
• Takes part in reviews of own work and reviews of colleagues' work
• Defines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications provided
• Has understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)
• Familiar with infrastructure technologies and components

Technology Skills You'll Use Every Day:

• Adaptive Communication