Senior Software Engineer

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

Global Commercial Services (GCS) serves millions of business customers around the world, from mom-and-pop shops to approximately 70% of the S&P 500. We are the number one issuer of small business cards, the industry leader in corporate T&E and represent approximately 40% of the company’s total revenues. Our vision is to be essential to our customers’ businesses every day. We do that by offering a diverse suite of payment and cashflow tools our customers need to run and grow their businesses, from a wide range of traditional card products, to working capital and supply chain financing, to new digital solutions that make it easy for our customers to manage their financial and payment needs.

Front End Sr Software Engineer I directs the end-to-end development of software applications, ensures adherence to best practices, mentors and coaches junior engineers, and collaborates with teams to optimize performance and integration.

Mentors junior Software Engineers and cross-functional team of colleagues, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation

Provides guidance and support to junior engineers, fostering professional growth and development within the team

Directs the design, development, testing, and deployment of software applications and systems

Oversees a variety of tasks, platforms, and technologies to expand new and existing software to meet changing requirements

Writes automated unit tests to ensure correctness and stability

Provides technical guidance to ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards

Monitors software performance and implements improvements to optimize functionality

Analyzes technical challenges and provides innovative solutions to enhance software quality and efficiency

Collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of software solutions

Collaborates and co-creates effectively with teams in product and the business to align technology initiatives with business objectives

Education Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and/or comparable experience; advanced degree preferred

Knowledge of distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, NoSQL, and relational databases

Knowledge of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)

Work Experience

Front End Software engineering and development experience or a related job

Experience in application design, software development, and automated testing

Experience in object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages

Experience in distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases

Experience in Agile software development methodologies and practices such as Scrum/Kanban, iterations, user stories

Experience in automation testing and documentation (i.e. automated, functional, and performance)

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions