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Here at Travel and Lifestyle Services (TLS), we bring membership to life every day. We build the websites and applications that power the extraordinary service our customers expect from American Express via a small group of global teams, where engineers can make decisions, learn, and innovate. With TLS looking to expand, we too are looking for an enthusiastic and curious React Engineer to join our team to learn our tools and processes and help the team deliver new customer facing travel experiences assisting in TLS becoming a truly digital first organisation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Write high quality JavaScript code to develop new features and resolve bugs
- Write meaningful and extensive tests to demonstrate that our code meets our users' requirements
- Ensure that the application is flexible and performant to scale up to large user bases across multiple languages
- Ability to work effectively independently and as part of an agile team to help the team achieve its goals
- Contribute and help evolve our teams coding standards and practises
- Critically review code as part of our pull request process
- Deploy applications to test and production environments using CICD tools (i.e., Jenkins)
- Collaborate clearly and effectively with colleagues in product and testing to write stories, clarify requirements, and ensure our work always meet the needs of the customer
- Contribute creatively to the solutioning of new work and be comfortable challenging the decisions and architecture of the application
- Assist in the mentoring and development of junior members of the team
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
We are looking for:
- Significant professional software development experience and / or comparable experience
- University degree in a related field (i.e., computer science or computer engineering) and / or equivalent industry background
- Experience working as part of an agile engineering team and contributing to regular agile ceremonies
- Programming, testing, and application design experience in JavaScript, React, Redux and Jest
- An understanding of cloud + CI / CD technologies, and how to get code into production quickly and reliably
- Experience within automation, preferably Selenium and / or WebDriver IO
Why American Express?
There's a difference between having a job and making a difference.
Amex have been making a difference in people's lives for over 160 years, backing them in moments big and small, granting access, tools, and resources to take on their biggest challenges and reap the greatest rewards. We've also made a difference in the lives of our people, providing a culture of learning and collaboration, and helping them with what they need to succeed and thrive. We have their backs as they grow their skills, conquer new challenges, or even take time to spend with their family or community. And when they're ready to take on a new career path, we're right there with them, giving them the guidance and momentum into the best future they envision.
When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.
Because we believe that the best way to back our customers is to back our people.
The powerful backing of American Express.
Don't make a difference without it.
Don't live life without it.
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