Senior Software Engineer –UI/UX

American Express

(New York, New York)

Full Time

Job Posting Details

About American Express

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

Responsibilities

- 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 for assigned applications
- Performing hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems
Performing hands-on software and strategy development, typically spending about 50% of time actually writing code, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints, doing proof of concepts
- Driving consistent development practices - tools and common components; Developing deep understanding of tie-ins 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
- Quickly generate and updating HTML prototypes from UI concepts for testing and team feedback
- Finalizing HTML prototypes into Web Applications by integrating with back-end services and functionality
- Embrace emerging standards while promoting best practices in order to push the limits of what a browser can do

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 for assigned applications
Performing hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems Performing hands-on software and strategy development, typically spending about 50% of time actually writing code, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints, doing proof of concepts
Driving consistent development practices - tools and common components; Developing deep understanding of tie-ins 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
Quickly generate and updating HTML prototypes from UI concepts for testing and team feedback
Finalizing HTML prototypes into Web Applications by integrating with back-end services and functionality
Embrace emerging standards while promoting best practices in order to push the limits of what a browser can do

Ideal Candidate

- 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 paired programming, agile development, application design, software development, and testing
- Thorough understanding of XML, JSON, Web Service technologies, and data structure fundamentals
- Experience with cloud technologies
- Experience with Java applications design and development in an Enterprise setting using J2EE, Spring, SQL DBMS’s desired
- Expertise in Objected Oriented Analysis and Design across a variety of platforms
- 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
- Experience with HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Software Version Control Systems (such as svn, git) required
- Experience with JavaScript Libraries (such as jQuery, GWT, Dojo, AngularJS), API’s, Search Engine Optimization, Web Page Optimization strategies desired
- Experience with adaptive and responsive techniques
- Internationalization (I18N) and Localization (L10N) experience is a plus
- Experience with a broad range of software languages and payments technologies is a plus
- Experience with design and coding using ETL tools is a plus
- Experience with test automation, DevOps and Test Driven Development is a plus

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 paired programming, agile development, application design, software development, and testing
Thorough understanding of XML, JSON, Web Service technologies, and data structure fundamentals
Experience with cloud technologies
Experience with Java applications design and development in an Enterprise setting using J2EE, Spring, SQL DBMS’s desired
Expertise in Objected Oriented Analysis and Design across a variety of platforms
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
Experience with HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Software Version Control Systems (such as svn, git) required
Experience with JavaScript Libraries (such as jQuery, GWT, Dojo, AngularJS), API’s, Search Engine Optimization, Web Page Optimization strategies desired
Experience with adaptive and responsive techniques
Internationalization (I18N) and Localization (L10N) experience is a plus
Experience with a broad range of software languages and payments technologies is a plus
Experience with design and coding using ETL tools is a plus
Experience with test automation, DevOps and Test Driven Development is a plus