Senior Software Engineer - Java, Web Engineering Digital Acquisitions

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

- Owns all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications Performs hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems - Functions as Senior member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development practices – tools, common components, and documentation - Mentors engineers, and may have management responsibilities over 2-3 engineers - Typically spends 50% of time writing code and testing, and remainder of time collaborating with stakeholders through ongoing product/platform releases - Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains - Writes code and unit tests, works on API specs, automation, and conducts code reviews and testing - Performs ongoing refactoring of code, utilizes visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts, and deliver continuous improvement Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies - Provides continuous support for ongoing application availability - Works closely with product owners on blueprints and annual planning of feature sets that impact multiple platforms and products - Works with product owners to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues

- 6+ years of software development experience - prefer 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 - Thorough understanding of XML, JSON , Web Services technologies, and data structure fundamentals, with experience in multi-threaded programming - Experience with Java applications design and development in an Enterprise setting using J2EE, Spring, SQL DBMS - Strong HTML, HTML5 and JavaScript (AJAX, DOM, JSON, XML) and Java skills - CSS experience - SVN or source management experience - Java, Servlets, Struts, Spring and JSP/JSTL experience - jQuery, Prototype and Scriptaculous experience - experience leading/mentoring other engineers - Experience with a broad range of software languages and payments technologies is a plus - 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 - Aptitude for learning and applying programming concepts