AVP, Principal Frontend Engineer

Job Description:

Role Summary/Purpose:
Billions of digital interactions—and you’ll enhance every user experience if you join our IT team as an Assistant resident, Front End UX/UI Developer. Imagine the scale of what we impact every second of every day through intuitive and compelling user interfaces. Now imagine what you can do to shape the future of acquisitions through design and frontend innovation—this is where your impact begins.

As an Assistant Vice President, Front End UX/UI Developer, you will be a main architect of our React.js based user interfaces helping to lead the entire front end development process and drive outstanding user engagement. You will participate in hack-a-thons, partner with universities on innovation events, work with our famed Stamford Innovation Station—you’ll bring us ideas about how to do things differently. You’ll be defining what Front End Engineering and UX can mean here—and how it can affect the entire financial technology industry.

It’s an ideal time to come aboard—we’re focused on the future, evolving as a company and helping define the financial services digital experience. With so much opportunity available, this is where you can make your mark.

This role is an excellent fit for a candidate who has graduated Synchrony’s Business Leadership Program in the IT track.

Our Way of Working

We’re proud to offer you choice and flexibility. At Synchrony, our way of working allows you to have the option to work from home near one of our Hubs or come into one of our offices. Occasionally you may be required to commute to our nearest office for in person engagement activities such as business or team meetings, training and culture events.

You’re the one we’re looking for if you:

• Are passionate about creating seamless, accessible, and beautiful user interfaces that serve a Fortune 200 company
• Have strong design instincts and common sense—you think through UX problems to make sure designs are usable, elegant, performant, and scalable
• Are ready to be disruptive and innovative in the commerce space through compelling front end experiences
• Can work with product, marketing, and project management as part of an agile team
• Are ready to own your own career and destiny
• Have strong tech skills: React.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, and frontend tooling expertise

We’ll depend on you to:

• Lead a cross-shore front end development team
• Influence and collaborate with UX designers, product owners, and backend engineers to create amazing user experiences
• Mentor and influence colleagues up and down the organization
• Participate in Agile scrums with cross-functional teams
• Participate in agile sprints including planning, daily standups, backlog grooming sessions, and reviews
• Analyze and troubleshoot UI defects, performance issues, identify root causes and implement fixes
• Provide 24×7 on-call support periodically throughout the year for front end production incidents
• Work with third party vendors to develop or integrate front end software components
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum 4 years of experience in front end web application development OR, in lieu of degree, High School Diploma/GED and 6 years of frontend development experience
• Minimum of 2 years of experience specifically with React.js development
• Strong background in JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Experience with front end build tools and dependency management (e.g., npm, webpack)
• Ability to balance design, usability, and performance considerations
• Critical Thinking and Creativity
• Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required

Desired Characteristics:

• Participation in/graduation from Synchrony’s Business Leadership Program
• Deep experience building responsive and accessible web applications
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies
• Experience with modern testing frameworks like Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress
• Experience with continuous integration environments like Jenkins or GitHub Actions
• Experience working with cloud platforms for deployment and monitoring (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Pivotal Cloud Foundry)
• Familiarity with UX design tools and principles (e.g., Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD)
• Understanding of mobile-first and progressive web application (PWA) development
• Working knowledge of mobile web technologies including HTML5, CSS3, and browser compatibility

Grade/Level: 10