American Express

Staff Engineer - UI

Posted On

Sept. 19, 2024

Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

Feb. 2, 2025

Job Description

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

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.

Card Shop group is looking for a Staff Engineer with a strong foundation in managing front end applications with a heavy focus on performance, accessibility, and continuous optimizations, and particularly with ReactJS, NodeJS, and Javascript-based frameworks.

The Staff Engineer will enable the organization to achieve technical excellence by designing scalable systems, improving code quality, and driving innovation. The role will also foster a culture of mentorship and collaboration, ensuring the development teams operate at peak efficiency and align with strategic business goals.

You will be part of the group, which focuses on and strives to provide best in class user experiences to our customers when they shop for American Express products. Your work will be at the frontline of American Express’ commitment to excellence to our customers, and thus highly visible, impactful, and rewarding.

Required skills:

12+ years of professional Software development experience, including significant experience with Javascript.
Advanced understanding of front end- and back end-specific concerns and the specific strategies to optimize for performance, scale, security, and availability across each part of the stack.
In-depth experience with Javascript frameworks, specifically ReactJS and NodeJS.
Ability to cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.
Proficiency in designing and architecting complex, scalable and distributed systems.
Experience working closely with product managers, UX/UI designers and other stakeholders to align technical goals with business objectives.
Ability to set technical direction, lead architectural discussions and decisions, and craft execution strategies.
Track record of innovation and pushing the boundaries of what is possible in technology.
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders effectively.
Proficiency in setting up and managing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
Strong understanding of DevOps principles, including monitoring, logging, and alerting with tools like Prometheus, Grafana and ELK Stack.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

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

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

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