At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

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 U.S. Consumer and Digital Technology (USCDT) team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. 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.

The One Market team develops the company's internal platform for enterprise-grade web crawling and technical SEO.  This tool empowers teams across the organization to gain insights into website performance while enforcing SEO best practices and change management for search optimization strategies.

• Perform technical aspects of software development
• Function as a leader on a software engineering team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Lead code reviews and automated testing
• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation
• Leads the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments. • Automate deployments in test or production environments
• Automatically scale applications based on demand projections
• Adhere to security and regulatory best practices

Leadership

• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking
• Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analyzing your work flow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.
• Mentor and guide success within the team

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required
• 5+ years of software development experience in a professional environment.
• Proven experience leading teams of engineers
• Hands-on expertise with application design, software development and deployment of critical full stack applications
• Experience with distributed systems, algorithms, and databases
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug complex issues across distributed systems
• Strong communication skills, capable of collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams and documenting technical solutions clearly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep experience with JavaScript and TypeScript using modern frameworks like React, Nest.js, and Node.js
• Proficiency in designing and consuming GraphQL APIs

• Proficiency in technical SEO concepts and tools, such as structured data (e.g. JSON-LD, Schema.org), XML sitemaps, robots.txt, HTML meta tags, Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.
• Experience integrating and analyzing search analytics data from both Google and Bing, utilizing tools like Google Search Console API and Bing Web Search API.
• Strong understanding of internal linking strategies and their impact on SEO, including the ability to implement best practices for site structure and navigation.
• Experience managing site crawling strategies to balance discoverability and resource efficiency
• Skilled in designing and maintaining micro-frontend systems
• Expertise in Domain-Driven Design
• Proficiency with Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS)
• Practical experience in working with MongoDB, including schema design, indexing strategies, and performance tuning

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries 
• Bonus incentives 
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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.

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