Sr Software Engineer I - JavaScript - The Card Shop
American Express8 hours ago
Base Salary
$123k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own team-level architecture, engineering standards, technical decisions, and implementation trade-offs.
- Design, architect, and deliver complex features across the full web application stack.
- Translate business needs into technical solutions and communicate implementation trade-offs and risks.
- Build experimentation capabilities including analytics instrumentation, feature flags, and controlled rollouts.
- Improve application quality, testing, observability, reliability, performance, accessibility, scalability, and maintainability.
- Partner with Site Reliability Engineering on production investigations, root-cause analysis, and lasting fixes.
- Mentor engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
- Lead responsible adoption of AI coding agents for implementation, testing, refactoring, documentation, and operational support.
Requirements
- 9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial hands-on modern web application development.
- Experience architecting and delivering complex production systems from design through production and setting technical direction.
- Strong hands-on expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Redux or comparable state-management technology.
- Strong experience with Node.js, Express, and server-side JavaScript or TypeScript development.
- Practical experience with automated testing frameworks such as Jest and Mocha.
- Experience designing and operating scalable, performant, resilient, accessible, secure, and maintainable applications.
- Demonstrated technical leadership through mentoring, design guidance, and team-level technical decision-making.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies and DevOps principles, including automated delivery, monitoring, and production support.
- Strong ownership, communication, collaboration, customer focus, and willingness to critically evaluate AI coding assistant output.
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries and bonus incentives.
- 6% company match on the retirement savings plan.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits.
- 20+ weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, including pregnancy, adoption, or surrogacy.
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite, or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need.
- On-site wellness centers, financial coaching, financial well-being support, and confidential counseling through the Healthy Minds program.
- Career development and training opportunities.
Tech Stack
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About American Express
American Express builds a global payments network and issues consumer, small-business, and corporate cards, plus merchant acquiring and travel services. Revenue comes from card fees, interest and lending, discount/merchant fees, and network services. Founded in 1850 and headquartered in New York City, it operates the Amex acceptance network worldwide and offers co-branded cards and membership rewards across millions of cardmembers and merchants; ticker NYSE: AXP.