Senior Software Engineer - Web - J2EE

American Express is a global service company, providing customers with exceptional access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success.

• Serving as a core member of an agile team that drives user story analysis and elaboration, designs and develops software applications, and builds automation tools for testing

• Owning all technical aspects of software development (architecture, design, and development of systems) for assigned applications

• Performing hands-on software and strategy development, typically spending about 50% of time actually writing code, doing proof of concepts, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints

• Performing ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast track concepts, and delivering continuous improvement

• Developing deep understanding of integrations with other systems and platforms within the supported domains

• Working with technical product managers contributing to blueprints, and assisting with annual planning of feature sets

• Identifying exciting opportunities for adopting new technology to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges

• Mentoring other Software Engineers, may have management responsibilities over 2-3 Software Engineers

• Manage your own time, and work well both independently and as part of a team

• Work closely with product managers, back-end and other front-end engineers to implement versatile solutions to tricky web development problems

• Finalizing HTML prototypes into Web Applications by integrating with back-end services and functionality

• Embrace emerging standards while promoting best practices and consistent framework usage

• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies

• This “rebel with a cause” looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities

• 6+ years of software development experience and preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline

• Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing

• Expertise with Java applications design and development in an Enterprise setting using J2EE, Spring, SQL DBMS’s

• Expertise in Objected Oriented Analysis and Design across a variety of platforms

• Expertise in applying SOA concepts for services design and development

• Thorough understanding of XML, JSON, Web Service technologies, and data structure fundamentals

• Experience with HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, DOM, and version control systems (such as svn, git)

• Experience with continuous integration and various testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, SOAP UI)

• Experience with adaptive and responsive development techniques

• Experience with internationalization and localization

• A proven hunger to learn new technologies and translate them into working software

• Ability to effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on solution design