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The Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.
Core Web Framework Engineering Team is seeking a self-driven Staff Engineer with deep expertise in Framework design and development. This role focuses on envisioning framework features, designing and developing them with an emphasis on developer experience and performance.
Responsibilities
60% of the time spent on hands-on engineering activities.
Envision, design, develop and release innovative framework features enabling developers to build highly performant and scalable web applications
Drive both high-level and detailed technical designs and conduct design reviews as needed
Take initiative to identify and Implement new, highly scalable foundational components and libraries
Improve and maintain existing components of the core framework
Actively participate in team and company-wide architecture and engineering discussions and forums
Employ technical expertise to help team members overcome technical problems
Analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software for use in local, networked, cloud-based or Internet-related environments
Serve as a passionate and expert Advocate of our frameworks and platform
Responsible for health and quality of the code across the portfolio, including leadership over SCM, functional testing, and CI/CD tool integration
Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related field required; advanced degree preferred
6+ years of active engineering experience in a complex environment and/or comparable experience such as successful engineering and deployment of enterprise-grade technology assets
Hands-on experience in development of highly scalable, high performance front end applications using a variety of technologies
Deep knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux, Jest, Enzyme and One-App is required
Hands-on coding experience in One Amex suite of platforms and products, especially One Data JS Functions is required.
Proven track record of contributing to core frameworks and platforms like One App and One Data and demonstrated expertise in the internals of the frameworks is required.
Proven track record of contributing to open source software is required.
Ability to work with a large group of skilled engineers, providing technical guidance, decision making ability and developing followership
Enjoy helping engineers solve problems
Advanced engineering skill with wide-ranging experience; able to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways
Thought leadership, ability to take on vague and partially defined problems and be able to provide solutions.
Passion for learning new technologies, industry trends and deep technical curiosity, emphasis on keeping up with the state of frontend of engineering and frameworks
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Salary 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 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
- 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.
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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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