Full Stack Engineer Ii (React.Js + Java)

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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.
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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. Amex 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
Enterprise Platforms are engines of growth for the company providing capabilities that power almost all key customer facing experiences to our Credit Card, Loan and Banking customers. One of key objectives Enterprise Platforms are driving at is develop a best-in-class Product & Pricing Catalogue that would enable American Express to launch new customer facing products and experiences with unparalleled flexibility and dramatically improved speed to market globally across all countries American Express operates in.
Our mission is to accelerate the pace of financial innovation and build new financial products for American Express at unprecedented speed by streamlining the process of launching and iterating on financial products.
As an Engineer, you will be responsible for building compelling user interface as well as backend APIs for integrating with dozens of internal systems. These interfaces power user journey for internal users that create new customer experiences, determine pricing and create/manage marketing offers. You will achieve this using latest and greatest open-source technologies and frameworks that facilitates developer productivity without compromising on quality at enterprise scale. 
You'll apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders on a daily basis to stay focused on common goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. We welcome diverse perspectives and people who are not afraid to challenge assumptions. Our engineers are expected to involve themselves in the full product lifecycle and share their opinions about the direction of our products. Are you passionate around solving business problems through innovation and sound engineering practices?
Here is what you can expect to do in this role:
Function as member of an Agile scrum team working on prioritized product backlog.
Analyze/refine business features and user stories with Product Owner to support design and build activities.
Develop new user-facing features using React.js.
Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code.
Perform all technical development for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, writing new code and API's 
Active pair-programming and peer code reviews with teammates for collective code ownership
Take the API first approach to all development and build those APIs for zero touch consumption.
Build reusable cross platform components, front-end libraries and back-end API's.
Research and apply leading UI and API technologies and libraries that enable agile product development.
Implement the best-in-class software practices that produce maintainable code, including usability patterns, code style conformity, integration, unit testing, and code review.
Design and build integration components and interfaces in collaboration with Senior Engineers, Architects and Infrastructure Engineers as necessary
Support integration and performance tests, providing demo of results to technical and product partners
Deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
Communicating to stakeholders and business partners on the solution and the implementation aspects at the technical and/or functional level appropriate for the situation
Seek continuous improvement in ways or working and delivery of quality software by participating in and acting on sprint and product increment level retrospectives.\
Influence team members with innovator mindset and demonstrated risk taking.

Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field.
Total 3 - 5 years of software development experience.
2 - 3years of development experience with front-end technologies and frameworks
1 + Years of Backend development experience (Java Preferred).
Recent experience in developing front-end applications using React and Redux.
Proficiency in JavaScript ES6 including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
Passion for learning new technologies, industry trends and deep technical curiosity.
Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing.
Collaborative work ethics to thrive on peer support and taking pride in of products and capabilities delivered as a team.
Ability to act as a change agent in rapidly evolving business requirements and platform roadmap.
Ability to balance priorities and break down complex problems to manageable chunks that can be delivered incrementally.
Must be willing and able to express new ideas, concerns and opinions directly to wider team including tech and business partners in team meetings in person or video/tele conferencing.
Good communication skills - able to explain technical concepts to designers, product managers and business partners in ways that are meaningful to them.

Preferred Qualifications:
Practitioner level understanding of CI/CD process and tools like – Git, Docker, Jenkins, XL Release etc.
Expertise in one or more automated testing tools such Sauce labs, PlayWright, TestNG, Selenium, etc.
Experience with one or more logging and monitoring tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus
RESTful API design and implementation.
Experience with BDD, TDD and/or ATDD
Strong experience with at least one NoSQL databases (Couchbase is preferable).
Experience with using design language systems or similar.
Experience with both Responsive and Adaptive Web Design

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.