Senior Engineer II

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.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives.  Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems.  American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source.  And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development.  Find your place in technology of #TeamAmex.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer with strong experience in mainly frontend, but also has interest and some working knowledge of building APIs for web applications that will be used by tens of millions of American Express customers around the world. We want someone with strong technical skills including React.js and Java and/or .NET. Should enjoy solving tough problems and working with new technologies to design and execute. You should not be shy about sharing your ideas and be enthusiastic about user experience and high quality.

You’ll be working in a fast-paced environment as part of the Business Blueprint team whose directive is to develop and the business blueprint product suite for American Express business customers. You should be familiar with modern software development methodologies and be able to dive deep and rapidly iterate on ideas despite ambiguity. 

Responsibilities:
•    Contribute to an agile team by leading user story analysis and feature grooming, solutioning, and developing thorough features and test-cases.
•    Ensure excellent application usability through careful manual testing
•    Lead collaborations with Product teams, development teams and backend teams to plan, test and release high-quality features in the applications.
•    Provide direct oversight in estimation and assessment of feasibility of features.
•    Cultivate consistent development standard methodologies.
•    Function as a lead member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation) and guiding your teammates day to day.
•    Demonstrate consistent self-reliance to achieve engineering and business goals.
•    Heavily participate in code reviews and automated testing.
•    Debug complex software components and identify code defects for remediation.
•    Lead the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.  
•    Automate deployments in test or production environments.
•    Automatically scale applications based on demand projections.
•    Confidently be able to trace, debug, resolve production issues and report root cause analysis to leaders and business partners rapidly. 
•    Successfully be able to manage multiple features at once and delegate work across your peers through execution including the ability to solution, refine and delivery with various tech teams and product partners. 
•    Understands the businesses objectives and how your team directly correlates to the businesses KPIs.
•    Ability to report timelines reliably and confidently for features and forecast target dates bas