Senior Software Engineer I

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together. The Travel & Lifestyle (TLS) team is one of the core teams at Amex which works on providing the world’s best Travel and Lifestyle experience to our cardmembers across the world. 

Our Software Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day. Today, innovative ideas, insight and new perspectives are at the core of how we create a more powerful, personal and fulfilling experience for all our customers. So if you’re interested in a career creating breakthrough software and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further.

You won’t just keep up, you’ll break new ground. There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express. Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing:

• Delivering features, services, components for travel ecosystem that touches millions of customers across the globe
• Perform all technical aspects of software development (I write, I test, I support) and automation
• Function as an active member of an agile team through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Perform unit, component, integration testing of software components including the design, implementation, evaluation, and execution of unit and assembly test scripts
• Conduct code reviews and tests of automated build scripts
• Debug software components, identifies, fixes and verifies remediation of code defects (own work and the work of others)
• Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments

Education and Experience

• 8+ years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience.
• Past experience of working in Travel Domain and Technologies is a MUST
• Familiarity with Travel Tech tools like Sabre 
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience required
• Demonstrable software development experience in React/HTML/CSS
• Experience working in Agile, Scrum, or other rapid application development teams to deliver technology solutions on time, on budget, and to spec.
• Understanding of Software development principles and concepts like OOPS is a plus.
• Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages a plus.
• Excellent oral and written communication and documentation abilities
• Comfortable in a small, intense and high-growth environment
• You know and can admit when something is not great. You can recognize that something you’ve done needs improvement
  

• Competitive base salaries 
• Bonus incentives 
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) 
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) 
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program 
• Career development and training opportunities