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Description

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 Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology 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.

Description

Do you have the ability to put together unique innovative customer facing solutions that increase business value and customer engagement by demonstrating strong architectural and UX principles and that are data driven? Do you have a unique combination of deep technical knowledge, eye for business and strong social skills to help influence and get results across a diverse organization.

American Express is embarking on an exciting digital transformation driven by an upbeat team of high performers. This group is forward-thinking and creative with the power to craft our Technology and Product roadmap. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative products and services at a rapid pace, serving our customers seamlessly across the globe through various channels, join our team!

If you love the React ecosystem and want to write modern outstanding JavaScript, We are a full stack React and NodeJS shop. We continuously develop high quality React pages comprised of our own sophisticated crafted React components delivering a modern experiences and innovative product to our customers. Whether your thing is to create pure react components or end to end JavaScript or TypeScript solutions we have things that will interest you. American Express as a corporation are a react shop and the digital acquisition’s shop team sit on top of the corporation's technology stack allowing developers to concentrate on wholesome JavaScript goodness knowing that what they do makes a difference.

Responsibilities:

• Provide strong leadership and oversight over the design and development of web applications globally.

• Apply a user-centered approach and is passionate about building better digital experiences for real people.

• Be a compelling storyteller with experience communicating sophisticated technical concepts and ideas to engineers and non-engineers alike.

• Be a change agent and willing to challenge status quo while helping to drive the needed changes.

• Provide technology leadership; inspire your team and proactively bring new insights, technologies, and methodologies to the table.

• Coach and mentor, the professional and technical development of your team members, improving team productivity and growing their careers by understanding your team’s skill levels, working styles, motivations, and professional goals.

• Collaborate with business and technology leaders, partners, developers, designers and product owners to understand and develop technical solutions that deliver strong business outcomes.

• Be responsible for agile, iterative, predictable product development at large scale.

• Partner with internal and external customers to provide strategic and technical leadership

This position is approved for applicants across all Business Units.

• Possess a good blend of business and technical capability and has a strong desire to learn new things as well as research customer insights, trends and business challenges.

• 10 years of demonstrated experience building and shipping well-loved large scale web products.

• Experience leading large engineering teams using a servant leadership attitude.

• Proven track record to influence decision-making at all levels within an organization, and in a variety of contexts.

• 5 proven experience leading project teams to take projects from feasibility to completion.

• 2 years experience as a hands-on architect with the ability to design and architect large scale web applications.

• Collaborate with the delivery teams to determine technical direction and approach to system design and implementation.

• Strong Experience in UI Frameworks such as NodeJS, AngularJS and React

• Strong understanding of SOA, Restful, Event Driven, and Microservices technologies for large scale environments.

• Deep understanding of quality standards and best practices, TDD/BDD concepts, and automation standard processes.

• Strong written and oral communication skills. Must be comfortable delivering presentations to small and large groups including executive level management internally and externally.

• Experience with matrix organizations consisting of multi-functional teams and experience in driving large-scale change efforts.

• Hands on experience with technology planning and road mapping

• Ability to drive innovation in practical, actionable way.

Qualifications

Annual Range: $170,000.00 to $255,000.00 annually bonus equity (if applicable) 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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Job: Technologies

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25012293