Front End UI Developer - React / Gatsby

Kabbage, an American Express Company, is setting a new standard in big data and FinTech and we are looking for a Front End UI Developer to help us in our mission to help small businesses be mighty.

Acquired by American Express in 2020, Kabbage is a leading FinTech company changing the way small businesses manage their cash flow. Applying automation and real-time data, Kabbage provides small businesses a suite of integrated cash-flow technologies from flexible lines of credit, digital business checking accounts, fast payments and predictive business analytics. Now with the powerful backing of American Express, Kabbage can offer millions of small businesses the opportunity to access digital tools to help them grow bigger, lasting companies. While we've received numerous awards and recognition-such as Entrepreneur's Top Company Cultures, Inc Magazine's Top Private Companies, GlassDoor's Best Places to Work, and Forbes FinTech 50-it is our people, our culture, and our leaders that make Kabbage such a great place to work.

At Kabbage, we strive to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, to stay, and do their best work. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is reflected in our people, our partners, and our customers. We are fully focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other wonderful characteristics that make us different.

When you join Team Amex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. Here, you'll learn and grow as we champion your meaningful career journey with programs, benefits, and flexibility to back you personally and professionally. Every colleague shares in the company's success.

Together, we'll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to our customers, communities, and each other every day. And, we'll do it with integrity and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they truly belong.

Join #TeamAmex and let's lead the way together.

What you'll be doing:

• You will be delivering amazing front end experiences for desktop and mobile using modern JS frameworks, most notably React and Gatsby.
• You will be creating an ecosystem of react components that will help our marketing team manage the content across several of our sites.
• This role is aligned with the Kabbage User Experience team who maintains our Kabbage brand across the American Express ecosystem
• Along with the front end ecosystem we have middle teir projects that require this developer be involved with the development process of APIs to manage piping data to our various internal systems.

What we're looking for in you?

• Proactivity: Resourceful, has grit, and a positive "can do" attitude; acts without being told what to do.
• Flexibility/adaptability: Is cool with rapidly changing priorities and projects.
• Follow-through: Follows-through on items without being managed.
• Calm under pressure: Ability to navigate and lead the team through high-priority last minute requests and other high stress situations; Works well under high-pressure timelines.
• Analytical skills: Likes learning and learns quickly.
• Communication: Ability to speak clearly and with intent.
• Passion: Passion for the products you deliver and a drive to expand your technical knowledge outside of your comfort zone.
• Some experience with Nodejs
• Experience building react front end applications ideally with gatsby behind a CMS like contentful or sanity.
• Exposure to micro-services is a plus within AWS using lambda.
• Experience with preprocessors like LESS or SASS
• Bonus Experience using Docker, Terraform, Build Pipelines and potentially some Python experience
• Two or more years of relevant experience is ideal.

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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