American Express—Software Engineer II

Job description

Description: We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer (SE II) with strong front-end engineering expertise to contribute to the Corporate Onboarding initiative. The ideal candidate will be strong in React, comfortable building complex customer-facing workflows, and have solid Java/backend development experience. The engineer should be able to independently take a feature from design through implementation, integration, testing, and production readiness. Requirements: - 4–5 years of software engineering experience with significant hands-on UI development. - Strong hands-on experience with React. - Strong understanding of: - 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. Responsibilities: - 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.