Software 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.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Contributes to design, development, troubleshooting, debugging, evaluating, modifying, deploying, and documenting software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.
• Serving as a core member of an agile team that drives user story analysis and elaboration
• Design and develop responsive web applications using the best engineering practices
• Performing hands-on software development, spending majority of time writing code and unit tests
• Develop proof of concepts, conduct code reviews, and test in ongoing sprints
• Performing ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts
• Developing deep understanding of integrations with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
• Manage your own time and work well both independently and as part of a team
• Bring a mindset of innovation, ideas, and continuous improvement
• Challenging status quo, demonstrate risk taking, and implement creative ideas
• Bring a good attitude, great communication, willingness to learn and collaborate
• Drive automation and ensure automated test scripts are completed for new features
• Demonstrate a passion for continuous learning and willingness to adopt new technologies
• Work closely with product managers plus other engineers to implement versatile solutions for tricky web development problems
• Embrace emerging standards while promoting best practices and consistent framework usage

Technical/Platforms:-

• 3+ years of software development experience
• BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or information technology or equivalent stream
• 3+ years' experience working in React, Redux, ES6 or ES7, RTL, Jest
• 3+ years expertise with web fundamentals including DOM, HTML/XHTML, CSS, JSON
• 3+ years' experience writing adaptive and responsive UI web applications
• 2+ years of experience in developing Micro services using Java, Vert.x, Spring Boot .etc
• 2+ years of experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) / Behavior Driven Development (BDD) practices, unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing, GUI testing, web service testing, and browser compatibility testing.

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 
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) 
• 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.  

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.