Sr Software Engineer - JavaScript - Card Shop

Position: Sr Software Engineer I - JavaScript - The Card Shop
Sr Software Engineer I
- Java Script
- The Card Shop

New York, NY, United States(Hybrid)

** Job Description*
* Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success.

Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company's growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex's customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

The U.S. Consumer Services and Membership Digital Experiences Technology team (USCDT) brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), marketing and advertising technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and dining technology. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

You will be part of the Card Shop 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.

If you love the React ecosystem and want to write modern outstanding JavaScript, We are a full stack React and NodeJS shop. We continuously develop high quality React pages comprised of our own sophisticated crafted React components delivering a modern experiences and innovative product to our customers. Whether your thing is to create pure react components or end to end JavaScript or Type Script solutions we have things that will interest you.

American Express as a corporation are a react shop and the digital acquisition's shop team sit on top of the corporation's technology stack allowing developers to concentrate on wholesome JavaScript goodness knowing that what they do makes a difference.

Join Card Shop and help shape the digital experiences customers use to shop for American Express products. As a Senior Software Engineer and hands-on tech lead, you will guide the architecture and delivery of high-impact web capabilities built with JavaScript, Type Script, React, Node.js, and modern web technologies. The team uses experimentation and a test-and-learn mindset to improve customer engagement and product acquisition.

You will combine deep full-stack engineering with team-level technical leadership: owning complex initiatives, making sound architecture decisions, and helping engineers do their best work. You will also help the team make thoughtful use of modern AI coding agents to improve how we design, build, test, and operate software, while holding the bar for customer experience, security, and quality.

You will work in an agile, cross-functional group where collaboration, automation, technical excellence, and continuous learning matter. Your work will contribute directly to important customer journeys.

** Responsibilities*
* ** Technical Leadership and Decision Scope*
* + Own team-level technical decisions, including architecture, engineering standards, and implementation trade-offs within agreed team boundaries.

+ Set shared technical direction across projects. Project Leads coordinate project delivery and make project-specific decisions consistent with team standards; decisions with broader architectural or cross-team impact are aligned with this role and relevant partners.

+ Partner with the engineering manager, who retains people-management and team-priority decisions. Escalate decisions that exceed the team's technical scope or introduce significant cross-team or customer risk.

+ Balance implementation work with architecture, technical guidance, and mentoring; this is a hands-on engineering role, not a full-time coordination role.

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