Software Engineer (CSS / Node.JS / Java) - IPCW Migrations

hackajob is collaborating with American Express to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.

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.

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Our 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.

There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express. Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing :

Designing and building a new application to support the infrastructure build and application migrations to our new data center.  You will be utilizing the latest technology tools and practice, you may be writing code and test cases, working with API specs and automation to maintain the resiliency, performance and availability of a group of applications

Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies

Removing toil and continue to drive efficiencies and optimization

Creating dashboards leveraging splunk, Grafana and kibana

Reviews current issues and works with Engineering team to get code fixed and deployed.

Designs, codes, tests, maintains, and documents applications

Build apps that meet compliance and audit requirements that are required for the financial services industry.

Participates in reviews of own work and reviews of colleagues' work

Defines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications provided

Minimum Qualifications

Recognizes opportunities to adopt innovative technologies to enable business capabilities

Keeps up to date on current research and technology in the industry

Recognizes the importance of collaboration to achieve objectives

Clearly communicates ideas and concepts to others

Leads work effectively and acts on own initiative without being prompted

Provides feedback to team members in code reviews

Is curious, drives creative change & continuous improvements

Explores new automation techniques to refine the agility, speed and quality of engineering initiatives and efforts

Balances feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives

Ability to prioritize work and competing demands

Ability to bring other along with you

Knowledge of frameworks and tools in the respective language enabling effective and efficient development

Understanding and interest in architectural patterns for highly available, scalable, low-latency, asynchronous systems (for example, well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms)

Knowledge of the advantages and challenges associated with the implementation of micro-services architecture

Incident management system knowledge (service now)

Basic UNIX knowledge and any programming language (preferably java, go lang or UI stack)

Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods

Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate

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

A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks.

Able to understand and use complex data structures and associated components

Basic knowledge of infrastructure technologies and components

Ability to speak clearly and with intent

Ability to navigate and lead the team through high-priority requests; Works well under high-pressure timelines

Resourceful, has grit, and a positive “can do” attitude; acts without being told what to do

Desired Skills

CSS experience (headwind CSS, Bootstrap, etc.

Node.JS experience

Strong experience working in any of the following backend languages : Java, Kotlin, C#, Scala

Experience in Source control using tools such as Git with DevOps and IT automation concepts.

Bonus Experience : Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required.

Two or more years of relevant industry experience

Salary Range : $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 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.