Software Engineer - Global Commercial Services

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Function as member of an Agile scrum team working on prioritized product backlog.

• 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

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

• 1+ years of software development experience mostly using JavaScript to build web apps both in the browser and on the server

• 1+ years of software development experience largely using Java

• 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 with Git and collaborative workflows (gitflow and other branching models, pull request-based code reviews)

• Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing.

• Collaborative work ethics to thrive on peer support and taking pride in of products and capabilities delivered as a team.

• Ability to act as a change agent in rapidly evolving business requirements and platform roadmap.

• Should have worked on RESTful API design and implementation.

• Ability to balance priorities and break down complex problems to manageable chunks that can be delivered incrementally.

• Must be willing and able to express new ideas, concerns and opinions directly to wider team including tech and business partners in team meetings in person or video/tele conferencing.

• Practitioner level understanding of CI/CD process and tools like – Git, Docker, Jenkins, XL Release etc.

• Good communication skills - able to explain technical concepts to designers, product managers and business partners in ways that are meaningful to them.

Bonus Points:

• 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 re