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