Senior Engineer - C/C++, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Java , REACT - Enterprise Data Management

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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.

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 on #TeamAmex.

The U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for leading projects, designing system solutions, developing custom applications, and modifying existing applications to meet distinct and changing business requirements.
• Function as a leader on an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices. Lead code reviews and automated testing
• Contribute to high level design as well as detailed design of complex subsystems with emphasis in high availability and low latency.
  Perform technical aspects of software development for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments
  Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation
• You will constantly pursue and learn industry leading/innovative technologies and solutions and build POC's to experiment new technologies, databases and other application infrastructure.
• Be acutely aware of enabling technologies and open-source products to build low latency distributed systems.
• Takes accountability for the success of the team achieving their goals, contribute to enable them to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.
• Drives the team's strategy and prioritizes initiatives
• Influence team members by challenging status quo, demonstrating risk taking, and implementing innovative ideas
• Collaborate with peer technology and scrum teams across different locations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Position requires Bachelors &  Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent with min 10+ years of professional work experience.
• Strong implementation experience using object-oriented languages like C/C++, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Java or ReactJS (ReactJS Preferred).
• Keen understanding of how to build highly performance systems with such languages.
• Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Enzyme, Redux, and Flux.
• Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code.
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, SQL, Oracle and Couchbase.
• Experience designing and developing REST APIs for high volume clients.
• Experience with continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Gitlab CI, GitHub Actions) a plus.
• Have hands-on experience in building and delivering large scale enterprise systems/products. Implemented critical aspects of such systems and have supported them in production environment
• Keen awareness of concerns in massively distributed systems and effective solutions.
• Experience working in DevOps teams and Scrums.
• Hands on experience using Jenkins, Git, Stash.  Previous Continuous Integration (CICD) experience is a plus.
• Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
• Have excellent written and verbal communications skills. Create and deliver effective presentations to Senior Leadership.
• Write high-quality reusable code to develop the dynamic user interface for various platforms

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience on GCP implementations
• Knowledge of Java/Spingboot is desirable
• Knowledge of Big Data ecosystem viz Spark, Hive, Scala, Pyspark is desirable

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries 
• Bonus incentives 
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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