Software Engineer
American Express
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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.
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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 Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.
Our Software Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day. Today, innovative ideas, insight and new perspectives are at the core of how we create a more powerful, personal and fulfilling experience for all our customers. So if you’re interested in a career creating breakthrough software and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further.
You’ll do more than the expected. You’ll do the unexpected.
One App is the enterprise web framework that powers American Express’s digital experiences. It’s a fresh take on web application development which consists of a Node.js server that serves up a single page app built using React components and makes use of Holocron, our library for building and composing microfrontends) to allow for code splitting via independently developed, tested, and deployed Holocron Modules (microfrontends).
Our goal is to provide a web application framework for building fast, scalable, secure, and modular experiences. Leaving the tooling to us so our users can focus on what matters - delivering performant, maintainable digital experiences.
We are looking for a JavaScript engineer who has great understanding of Node.js & React. Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing:
· Developing an enterprise web framework
· Providing support for said framework to 1,000+ engineers, including training
· Designing intuitive, functional and extensible APIs
· Building cross platform components and libraries for future reuse and open source
· Optimizing software for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers as well as servers.
· Automating builds, testing, deployments and otherwise manual processes
· Thoroughly reviewing pull requests and identifying breaking changes
Requirements:
· Ability & aptitude for solving complex problems with simple solutions
· Forward thinking that anticipates the needs of our users & the enterprise
· Communication skills to teach users, both in writing and speaking
· Open source mindset, understanding of how/when to split functionality into reusable libs that can benefit the whole OSS community beyond the enterprise
· Strong proficiency in JavaScript, Node.js & React, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
· Knowledge of Accessibility and Web Standards
· Understanding of React and its core principles
· Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript
· Experience with common JavaScript development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, yarn, etc.
· Experience with Github Actions and understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
· Experience writing automated tests including unit, integration, visual and performance testing.
· Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
· Ability to perform benchmarking and optimization
· Stay updated with the web frameworks and industry trends
Desirable traits:
· Experience architecting & building and high performance, high quality software designed for enterprise capacity.
· Has existing OSS contributions or created libraries that work outside of their application.
· Solid grasp of security best practices
· Knowledge of performance optimization techniques
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
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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Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
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