Engineer – Marketing Platforms

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With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

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.

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.

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 your professional development.  Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex

The U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

We are seeking an Engineer to be part of a dynamic high-performing entrepreneurial team focused on delivering the next generation Marketing Tech capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for delivering the features or software functionality independently and reliably.
• Develop technical design documentation.
• Functions as core member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation.
• Working with other software engineers to design and develop architecture that’s well-structured and flexible
• Participate in code reviews and automated testing.
• Helps other junior members of the team deliver.
• Recommends improvements, best practices and conducts experiments to prove/disprove them
• Provides continuous support for ongoing application availability.
• Learns, understands, participates fully in all team ceremonies, including work breakdown, estimation, and retrospectives.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential, including substantiated ability to innovate and take pride in quickly deploying working software.
• High energy demonstrated, willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how elegantly they develop working software.
• Communicates effectively with product and cross functional teams 

Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree with minimum 4+ years of overall software design and development experience.
• Strong proficiency developing web front ends with React.js , Node.js, Java Script  
• Experience with TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Json, XML
• Experience implementing REST or GraphQL services ,and API's
• Experience with automated testing suites like JEST, RTL, Parrot . Jest, Cucumber, Selenium, Redux,.etc.

Optional Skills

• Hands-on coding experience in building software the Amex way, including One App, one data, web paved roads etc.
• Hands on experience with one or more programming languages (Java, Python, Scala)
• Knowledge of SQL and experiences relational databases like PostgreSQL
• Knowledge of various Shell Scripting tools
• Experience in test driven development and unit testing
• Experience with continuous integration/deployment (Jenkins, Maven, XLR ..etc.)
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (GIT)
• Familiarity with Agile or other rapid application development methods.
• Strong communication and analytical skills including effective presentation skills.

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 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

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.

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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