Engineer - Channel Frameworks & Services

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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.

The Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization

The Channel Frameworks & Services team is keenly focused on helping engineers build and manage best-in-class customer experiences quickly, economically, and safely.

Key Responsibilities Software Development
• Function as member of a software engineering team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals
• Participate in code reviews and automated testing
• Debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation
• Enable the development, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
• Automate deployments in test or production environments
• Automatically scale applications based on demand projections
• Adhere to security and regulatory best practices

Scope of Impact/Influence
• Accountable to team for completing work you’re leading and deliverables as agreed upon
• Accountable to team for delivery of quality work

Education & Experience

Up to 4 years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or
comparable experience such as:
• Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods
• Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and as appropriate
• Hands-on experience with application design, software development, and automated testing
• Exposure to distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
• Experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages

Software engineering experience
• Experience with Java vs. 8 or higher programming
• Experience with UI technologies like, ReactJS, HTML, CSS
• Experience with SQL or NOSQL databases
• Experience working in agile methodology
• Experience with GitHub / Git
• Experience working with Springboot and Spring Cloud

High-performing Behaviors
• 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
• Influences team members with creative changes and continuous improvements
• Explores new automation techniques to refine the agility, speed and quality of
engineering initiatives and efforts

Knowledge/Skills

• Able to understand and use advanced data structures and associated components
• Designs, codes, tests, maintains, and documents application components
• Takes part in reviews of own work and reviews of colleagues' work
• Defines test conditions based on the functional and non-functional requirements
provided

Engineering & Architecture
• Has understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building,
testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)
• Monitors system performance and availability and improves software quality through
root cause analysis
• Intermediate knowledge of infrastructure technologies and components
Technology Core Competencies
• Adaptive Communication
• Agile Practices
• Industry and Company Knowledge
• Organizational Change Management
• Technical Acumen
• Technology Industry Trends

Role Core Competencies
Technical
• Emerging Technologies
• Programming/Software Development
• System Design
• Testing

Functional
• Data Analysis
• Data Management
• Governance and Reporting
• Release and Deployment
• User Experience Evaluation and Analysis

Leadership
• Executive Presence
• Analytical Thinking
• Relationship Management

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.

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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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