Lead Developer

You Lead the Way. We ve Got Your Back.

At American Express, you ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company s success. Together, we ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world s best customer experience every day. And we ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and lets lead the way together.

You Lead the Way. We ve Got Your Back.
The Global Advertising and Brand Management (GABM) organization has a mission to create marketplace demand and drive commerce for American Express through differentiated and innovative products, partnerships, marketing, and customer experiences.
The Frontend Developer will report to the OnBrand Development Lead. OnBrand is American Express In-House Creative agency, and we re on a journey for exciting expansion. Our ambition is: Become the creative partner-of-choice to build seamless customer experiences for our Business Units, essential for driving results and unlocking value through deeper knowledge of our business powered by industry-defining creative excellence. We are focused on developing forward thinking ideas and work across channels, end-to-end experiences in digital and beyond.
To be successful in this role, the candidate must exhibit outstanding judgment, solution-oriented thinking and superior technical skills. The Frontend Developer will work with the development team leadership to drive solutions for complex projects, and navigate changes in scope to deliver a successful project. They will partner with account, project management, UX/UI, creative, and QA teams to balance the expectations of clients with the execution of creative work.

Responsibilities
Write high-quality code for digital platforms using HTML, CSS and Javascript
Build reusable digital experiences while managing and customizing modular web content
Execute development for a range of multiple parallel project engagements
Produce, maintain, and modify digital experiences and user interfaces
Partner with the UX/UI, copy and design teams to setup digital experiences for success from the ideation stage
Ensure all digital experiences align to industry standards and best practices
Partner with QA team to troubleshoot and resolve defects

Required Skills / Qualifications
5+ years of development experience
Knowledge of modular web builder technologies and content management systems and experience building and editing custom code to extend their capabilities
Advanced knowledge in HTML, CSS, and JS
Experience with React
Knowledge of API s
Experience building custom dynamic responsive HTML emails from scratch and optimizing for delivery across a variety of clients, browsers, and operating systems
Knowledge of email best practices and industry standards
Experience with email testing software (Litmus, Email on Acid, or similar)
Greensock animation (or similar)
Strong understanding of web development best practices around security, privacy, accessibility, responsiveness, and performance
Adobe Experience Manager CMS (or similar)
Strong understanding of web development best practices around accessibility, responsiveness, and performance
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
Ability to work with a Project Management tool (e. g. , Workfront, JIRA, etc)

Nice to Have s
Node. js
TypeScript
GraphQL
AngularJS
CI/CD

Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• 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