Software Engineer II

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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.

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible — and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. 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.

American Express entered the travel agency business in 1915, and today is one of the world’s largest luxury travel and lifestyle service networks.

The Travel & Lifestyle Services (TLS) business provides exclusive access, differentiated value, extraordinary service, and unrivalled expertise to Card Members seeking leisure or business travel, as well as a variety of lifestyle services. The Global Digital Customer Experience is a strategic focus area for growth within Travel and Lifestyle Services and there is significant continuing investment to transform and optimize our digital proposition and capabilities. American Express Travel Online not only drives direct revenue and cost savings but also plays an important role in overall Card product engagement, loyalty and satisfaction.

How will you make an impact in this role?

We are looking for a skilled React front-end engineer to join our team, bring in experience, and help the team deliver new customer facing travel experiences. You will be building websites and front-end applications based on modern design principles and technology stack that powers the extraordinary service our customers expect from American Express – TLS when booking travel online. You will design, develop, solve problems, debug, deploy, and document software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications. Technology design considerations would include usability, navigation, SEO-friendliness, a responsive site, security and accessibility, to name a few. The ideal candidate must be:

willing and able to express new ideas, concerns, and opinions directly to team

proactive, enthusiastic, flexible, and results driven

willing to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential

Key Responsibilities

Software Development

Ability to write high quality code to develop new modules / components using the React JavaScript library

Function as member of 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 deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments

Automate deployments in test or production environments using CI/CD tools like Jenkins

Leadership

Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve self and team goals

Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking

Ability to take ownership and work independently on deliverables with the product leadership and any dependent team

Minimum qualifications

4+ years of experience in programming, testing, and application design using React and Redux JavaScript libraries, using versioning tools like Git.

Beginner’ Experienced working as part of an agile engineering team and contributing to regular agile ceremonies.

Beginner’ Knowledge of cloud and CI/CD technologies, and how to get code into production quickly and reliably.

Preferred qualifications

Experienced with American Express oneApp framework

Additionally, experienced with Full stack engineering, preferably in developing APIs using Java and Springboot framework.

Non-considerations for sponsorship:

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the UK is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

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

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

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations. ]]>
Location:
United Kingdom
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Financial Services