Senior Engineer - UI/UX Developer

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The Cyber Engineering team at American Express is seeking a dynamic engineer for the role of UI/UX developer within the Technology Risk and Information Security organization. This position offers a unique opportunity to develop advanced UI/UX capabilities involving emerging technologies to address the evolving Cyber Threat landscape. 

Join the Cyber Engineering team at American Express as a UI/UX Developer in the Technology Risk and Information Security organization. As a key member of this team, you will have the opportunity to design and develop cutting-edge UI/UX capabilities utilizing emerging technologies, including Generative AI, to stay ahead of the evolving cyber threat landscape and protect American Express's digital assets.

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Collaborate with the team to analyze user stories, develop responsive web applications, and deliver high-quality software products.
• Conduct user research, interviews, and surveys to inform design decisions and create sitemaps, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Write clean, efficient code, and unit tests, and participate in code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints.
• Continuously refactor code to improve performance, maintainability, and scalability.
• Drive a culture of innovation, challenge the status quo, and implement creative ideas to improve processes and products.
• Work closely with product managers, back-end developers, and other front-end developers to deliver versatile solutions to complex web development challenges.
• Manage your own time effectively, prioritize tasks, and work independently and as part of a team to meet deadlines.
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs to visualize and communicate design concepts.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging standards and best practices, and promote standard methodologies and consistent framework usage.

Minimum Qualifications

• Associates or BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field (or equivalent 5+ years of work experience)
• 5+ years of experience in UI/UX development or a related field.
• Portfolio showcasing your design and development work.
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Typescript including React.
• Familiarity with Tailwind CSS framework and CSS preprocessors like Sass or Less.
• Knowledge of bro