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 repositories like GitHub

Salary Range: $78,000.00 to $124,750.00 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 you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

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.