Lead Developer

Lead Developer

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

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With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

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 let's lead the way together.

How will you make an impact in this role?

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 Lead Frontend Developer will report to the OnBrand Director of Engineering. 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 Lead 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:

• 7+ years of frontend development experience 
  
• Experience with leadership - overseeing one or more developers, providing troubleshooting assistance, guiding them through navigating obstacles toward project completion
  
• 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
  
• Java

Additional Details:

• Location: BGC Corporate Center 2, 5th Avenue corner 30th Street, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig
  
• Workplace Flexibility: Full time. Must be amenable to follow a hybrid work arrangement (onsite and work from home)
  
• Work From Home Requirements:
  
  • Must have at least 25 mbps internet connection plan / speed
    
  • Must have a private & quiet area to work at home
    
• American Express offers a fantastic and diverse working environment. High performance is rewarded with target driven incentives

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. 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 work arrangements and schedules with hybrid and virtual options with Amex Flex 
  
• 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

This role is not open to visa sponsorship according to business requirements.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

To know more about our recruitment process, you may watch this short video – What to Expect: Recruitment at American Express