Software Engineer II
American Express · Posted Sep 30
Banking, credit card, payment network, and travel services
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About the role
American Express is hiring a Full Stack Engineer (SE II) with strong front-end engineering expertise to contribute to its Corporate Onboarding initiative. The role is centered on React-based, customer-facing onboarding and application journeys, paired with Java backend services and enterprise API integrations. The engineer will independently take features from design through implementation, integration, testing, and production readiness, working alongside Product, Architecture, UX, and QA teams.
What you will do
- Design and develop responsive, scalable, and reusable UI components using React.
- Build complex, multi-step application and onboarding journeys with a strong focus on user experience.
- Implement role-based and dynamic UI behavior.
- Integrate UI components with REST APIs and backend services.
- Develop and enhance backend services using Java.
- Implement API integrations with upstream and downstream enterprise systems.
- Handle application state, validations, error scenarios, and data persistence effectively.
- Write clean, maintainable, testable code with appropriate unit and integration test coverage.
- Participate in technical design discussions and translate business requirements into practical engineering solutions.
- Troubleshoot issues across UI, API, and integration layers.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, UX, QA, and dependent engineering teams.
- Own assigned features through development, testing, deployment, and production support.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 4–5 years of software engineering experience with significant hands-on UI development.
- Strong hands-on experience with React.
- React components and hooks
- State management
- Form handling and validations
- REST API integration
- Component reusability
- Responsive UI development
- Error and exception handling
- Experience building enterprise-grade, customer-facing web applications.
- Good understanding of accessibility and secure UI development practices.
- Hands-on experience with Java and preferably Spring Boot.
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs.
- Good understanding of API contracts, request/response models, validations, and error handling.
- Experience with relational/NoSQL persistence as applicable.
- Understanding of authentication, authorization, and role-based access control (RBAC).
- Experience integrating with enterprise services and external APIs.
Benefits and support
- 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
About American Express
American Express Company is a globally recognized multinational financial services corporation specializing in payment cards, travel-related services, and network banking. Founded in 1850, the company provides charge and credit cards, expense management products, and merchant services to consumers, small businesses, and large corporations worldwide. It operates a proprietary payments network known for its premium customer engagement and lifestyle rewards programs.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 76800 employees
- Founded
- 1850-03-18
- Location
- New York City, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President
Chief Colleague Experience Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
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