Full-Stack Engineer - job 4 of 6

About the position

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.

Responsibilities
• Function as member of an Agile scrum team working on prioritized product backlog.
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• Analyze feature requests and prioritize business, technical, compliance and maintenance activities with product owners.
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• Work with architects to devise solutions for business and technical needs.
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• Collaborate with product owners to understand business needs and conceive features to address them.
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• Solve production issues in collaboration with our production support team.
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• 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.
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• Review colleagues’ code with an eye toward performance, reliability and maintainability.
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• Help our production support team address issues encountered in production and fix defects when discovered.
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• Continuously learn about new technologies and help keep the entire group abreast of industry developments and evolving best practices.

Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.
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• 1+ years of software development experience, to a large extent using JavaScript to build web apps both in the browser and on the server.
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• 1+ years of software development experience, to a large extent using Java.
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• Hands-on experience building browser applications using ES6 or a later version.
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• Hands-on experience building browser applications with one or more of the component-based frameworks.
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• Hands-on experience with Git and collaborative workflows (gitflow and other branching models, pull request-based code reviews).
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• Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing.
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• Collaborative work ethics to thrive on peer support and taking pride in of products and capabilities delivered as a team.
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• Ability to act as a change agent in rapidly evolving business requirements and platform roadmap.
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• Should have worked on RESTful API design and implementation.
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• Ability to balance priorities and break down complex problems to manageable chunks that can be delivered incrementally.
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• 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.
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• Practitioner level understanding of CI/CD process and tools like – Git, Docker, Jenkins, XL Release etc.
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• Good communication skills – able to explain technical concepts to designers, product managers and business partners in ways that are meaningful to them.

Nice-to-haves
• Experience using other JVM languages (Closure, Scala, Kotlin).
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• Experience with DDD (Domain Driven Design).
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• Experience in a fast-paced startup environment.
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• Contribution to open source projects.
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• Building and maintaining personal projects in public repositories like GitHub.

Benefits
• Competitive base salaries
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• Bonus incentives
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• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
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• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
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• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
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• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
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• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
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• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
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• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
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• Career development and training opportunities