Sr. Engineer UI-UX- Merchant Finance

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

Job Description Global Merchant Services Merchant Financing is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – UI/UX. We are looking for a user experience professional with strong interests and capabilities in the design and development of engaging user experiences. The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires an entrepreneurial spirit and the drive to bring new products to life. Strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction is a must, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. This individual excels at providing both highly analytical as well as highly creative ideas to bring new products to life. The ideal candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative development environment. With a thorough understanding of contemporary user-centered design, the candidate will act as an owner in the development of the Merchant Finance Platform using best in class Web technologies.

• 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 UI 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. • Working closely with UX/Visual Designers to translate visual and functional specifications to customer-facing experiences. • Build with future product and technical vision in mind to streamline the iterative release process.

Qualifications • 7+ 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 • Thorough understanding of XML, JSON, Web Service technologies (including REST • Experience with Java applications design and development in an Enterprise setting using J2EE, Spring, SQL DBMS’s desired • Experience in building websites with responsive web design using Twitter Bootstrap 3.+ (Material Design a plus) • Experience with Web Frameworks (MEAN stack), HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Software Version Control Systems (such as svn, git) required • Experience with JavaScript Libraries (such as jQuery, GWT, Dojo, AngularJS, React), Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+) 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 • 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 a broad range of software languages and payments technologies is a plus • Experience working with Visual designers and an understanding of the user-centric design process • A passion for creating pixel-perfect and streamlined user experiences with supreme attention to detail • Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) is a plus