Engineer Ii

You Lead the Way. We've Got Your Back.
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.
This is a great opportunity to join the Enterprise Business Intelligence Engineering, part of Enterprise Data Platform Engineering (EDPE) within American Express Technologies. This group is nimble and creative with the power to shape our technology and product roadmap. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative Business Intelligence & Reporting Capabilities at a rapid pace, serving our customers seamlessly across physical, digital, mobile, and social media, join our transformation team!
Purpose of the Role:
You will be part of a fast-paced, enterprise platform - xVision. This Business Intelligence Platform leverages American Express Enterprise Data Assets & capabilities to provide easy-to-access business intelligence reports to the Relationship Managers (Internal and External) of American Express external relationships.

Focus:
Contributes to design, development, troubleshooting, debugging, evaluating, modifying, deploying, and documenting software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.
How will you make an impact in this role?
Software Development
· Intermediate level ability in software development, such as coding assignments
· Function as leader on an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
· 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
· To build the backend logic for aggregating the data required for the dashboard
· To collaborate with business partners to gather the requirements, suggest on architecture and visualization wireframe and build Dashboards.
Leadership
Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals
Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking
Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analyzing your workflow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.

Range of Impact/Influence:
· Accountable for team completing work you're leading and work you are doing as agreed upon
· Accountable to team for delivery of quality work
Minimum Qualifications
Education & Experience:
A bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience; advance degree preferred
3+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining full-stack web applications
Experience in contributing as software engineers focused on micro-UI development
Advanced understanding of Web Technologies (JavaScript, CSS, HTML5)
Must have 2+ years of experience focused exclusively on React development
Understanding of Agile or other rapid application development methods. Exposure to design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate
Exposure to methods relating to application design, software development, and automated testing

Technical Skills:
Hands on engineer with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Node.js, SQL skills
Familiar with Continuous Integration (CI) and its use in testing, building
Experience with RESTful APIs and how to connect React applications to back-end services
Good understanding of CI/CD processes leveraging Jenkins, XLR and Github Actions
Ability to understand and adopt enterprise framework
Experience with BDD and automated test framework such as Playwright, Selenium, RTL, etc.

High Performance Behaviors:
· Learns and applies new technologies and techniques
· Demonstrates good analytical skills
· Recognizes the importance of collaboration to achieve objectives
· Clearly communicates ideas and concepts to others
· Manages assigned tasks effectively; acts on own initiative without being prompted 

Skills You'll Use Every Day:
· Adaptive Communication
· Agile Practices
· Industry and Company Knowledge
· Change Management
· Technical Acumen
· Technology Industry Trends

Game Changers:
· Flexibility
· Collaboration & Partnership
· Continuous Improvement
· Courage
· Curiosity
· Resourcefulness
· Tenacity

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 
Support for financial-well-being and retirement 
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) 
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) 
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

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.  
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.