Frontend Senior Engineer - React - Enterprise Architecture

American Express

Sunrise, FL

Full Time

Senior

110k-190k

18 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

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. 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 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.

Key Responsibilities

Develop new user-facing features using React.js
Advocate for the user experience whether it be performance, accessibility, or general UX best practices
Build reusable cross platform components and front-end libraries for future use
Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
Perform hands-on software development, typically spending the majority of time architecture components, developing code and unit tests, managing proof of concepts, and conducting code reviews

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience
5+ years of software experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frontend frameworks (React, NextJS)
Understanding of React.js and its core principles
Experience with both Responsive and Adaptive Web Design
Experience with using design language systems or similar
Experience with client-side state management, hooks, and component lifecycle
Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript and/or TypeScript
Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
Solid understanding of asynchronous programming and RESTful API integration
Demonstrated ability to lead, partner, and collaborate cross functionally across many engineering teams
Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential

Nice to Have

Experience with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
Experience with design language systems or similar
Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript and/or TypeScript

Benefits & Perks

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

Working at American Express

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. 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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