Amex Hiring for Senior Frontend Engineer at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Full Time

You Lead the Way. Weve 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, youll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey thats unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally. At American Express, youll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact every colleague has the opportunity to share in the companys success. Together, well win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the worlds best customer experience every day. And well 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. 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 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. How will you make an impact in this role? As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for building compelling user interfaces leveraged by dozens of stakeholders involved in product lifecycle management. 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. Youll 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 senior member of an Agile scrum team providing technical leadership to a team of engineers and helping drive consistent development practices (tools, testing, common components, and documentation).
• Spend ~50% of time writing code and testing, and remainder of time architecting/designing, managing team and stakeholders through ongoing product/platform release sprints.
• 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.
• Build reusable cross platform components and front-end libraries
• Collaborate with engineering teams: find opportunities to educate and learn from other mobile & web engineering teams.
• Develop deep understanding of tie-ins with other business processes and provider/consumer systems.
• Take ownership and responsibility for the quality of the code from development to production.
• Perform peer code reviews, making deliberate short and long-term design decisions and keeping constant focus on clearing technical debt items in the backlog.
• Manage and mentor team of junior and senior engineers through ongoing sprints.
• Research and apply leading UI 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.
• Works closely with product owners on blueprints and quarterly planning of feature sets
• Communicate with 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field.
• 6+ years of strong experience programming in JavaScript and React.
• In-depth Knowledge of HTML5, React, Redux, and Node.
• Experience writing adaptive and responsive UI applications.
• Able to demonstrate core web development fundamentals & knowledge of the DOM.
• Experience with automated tested and unit testing (Jest, Enzyme, React Testing Library).
• Experience in Debugging, Tracing, and fixing issue
• Expertise in one or more automated testing tools such Sauce labs, PlayWright, TestNG, Selenium, etc.
• Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing.
• Experience with one or more logging and monitoring tools like Splunk, ELK stack, Dynatrace, Prometheus

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing Data Driven Dynamic UIs using libraries/frameworks like react-json schema-form.
• Experience with one or more rules engine related libraries/frameworks for frontend (Json-rules-engine)
• Experience with REST APIs and/or GraphQL
• Contributions to open-source or reusable libraries
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and NoSQL databases (Couchbase is preferable)
• Practitioner level understanding of CI/CD process and tools like – Git, Docker, Jenkins, XL Release etc.
• Domain knowledge of Payments and/or financial products
• Experience with Micro front-end architecture
• Experience with BDD, TDD and/or ATDD

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.