American Express
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.
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 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.
Requirements for this position:
3+ years building and shipping web-based software in a professional environment
Experience building highly interactive web experiences in JavaScript using React, Angular, Ember or similar
A thorough understanding of how the web works, modern web application architectures, modern browser APIs and capabilities
Familiarity with modern service-based web application architectures
Strong communication skills - able to explain technical concepts to designers, product managers and business people in ways that are meaningful to them
Also critical to your success:
The insight to notice problems in how we work, and the initiative to fix them
The ability to see and to understand the larger context in which your team works and to craft solutions within that context
Adaptability to changes in product requirements, organizational structures and business conditions
A strong belief in your own responsibility for ensuring quality craftsmanship
Creativity, passion and the drive to solve challenging problems
An open, collaborative spirit
Bonus points:
Experience building browser applications with React
Experience building server-based applications and services with ES6 and a Node-based toolchain
Experience with multiple relational and non-relational database technologies
Experience building distributed systems with an eye toward scalability, reliability and security
Experience in a fast-paced startup environment
Qualifications
BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline with atleast 5+ years of experience in building large scale applications
Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
Familiarity with RESTful APIs
Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
A knack for benchmarking and optimization
Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git
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.
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 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.
Requirements for this position:
3+ years building and shipping web-based software in a professional environment
Experience building highly interactive web experiences in JavaScript using React, Angular, Ember or similar
A thorough understanding of how the web works, modern web application architectures, modern browser APIs and capabilities
Familiarity with modern service-based web application architectures
Strong communication skills - able to explain technical concepts to designers, product managers and business people in ways that are meaningful to them
Also critical to your success:
The insight to notice problems in how we work, and the initiative to fix them
The ability to see and to understand the larger context in which your team works and to craft solutions within that context
Adaptability to changes in product requirements, organizational structures and business conditions
A strong belief in your own responsibility for ensuring quality craftsmanship
Creativity, passion and the drive to solve challenging problems
An open, collaborative spirit
Bonus points:
Experience building browser applications with React
Experience building server-based applications and services with ES6 and a Node-based toolchain
Experience with multiple relational and non-relational database technologies
Experience building distributed systems with an eye toward scalability, reliability and security
Experience in a fast-paced startup environment
Qualifications
BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline with atleast 5+ years of experience in building large scale applications
Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
Familiarity with RESTful APIs
Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
A knack for benchmarking and optimization
Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git