American Express—Senior Software Engineer I

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Description: GLB is a global organization dedicated to building loyalty products that create meaningful connections with customers and power the American Express brand. Requirements: - Experience in application design, software development, and testing in an Agile environment using Go - Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including Elastic Search, PostgreSQL, Couchbase, or Cassandra. - Experience designing and developing REST APIs for high volume clients. - Experience with continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Github). - Experience with automated build and test frameworks a plus. - Experience in American Express Technologies is highly desired. - A proven hunger to learn new technologies and translate them into working software. - Experience with container and container orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes. - Experience with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.). - Strong ability to develop unique, outside the box ideas - Strong analytical, problem-solving/quantitative skills - Willing to take risks, experiment, and share fresh perspectives - Aptitude for learning and applying programming concepts. - Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners. Preferred Additional: - Knowledge of Loyalty/Rewards and Credit card industry - Experience with coding skills across a variety of distributed technologies - Experience with open-source frameworks is a plus – especially maintaining or contributing to open source projects! - Experience with a broad range of software languages (Java/Go/Javascript) and payments technologies Preferred Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems - 8+ years of experience. Responsibilities: - Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large-scale enterprise Microservice applications • Expertise in Go, Kafka, Microservices REST APIs• Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments. - Partners with product team and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver new features/improvements to the platform. - Establish and accepts responsibility for engineering practices across teams for example the code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective. - Experience writing software in Go. - Experience with data structures, algorithms, and software design. - Exposure to Event driven architecture. - Develop Unit tests/Component test cases using Go. - Demonstrated ability to design, train, fine-tune, and optimize REST API - Exposure in building cloud-native platforms on modern tech stack: AWS, Java, Spring Framework, RESTful API, and container-based application. - Ability to learn new tools and paradigms in data engineering and science. - Proven experience attracting, hiring, retaining, and leading top engineering talent. - Creative, passionate, and experienced leader of both people and technology. - Team Management savvy (e.g., planning, budgetary control, people management, vendor management, etc.). - Experience with DevOps, reliability engineering, and platform monitoring. - Well versed in AGILE, DevOps and Program Management methods. - Enterprise thinking - find opportunities to educate and learn from other groups, including mobile & web engineering teams - Solves technical problems outside of day-to-day responsibilities - Develop team's strategy and prioritize technology initiatives - Ensure frictionless CI/CD pipeline from the teams - Able to effectively communicate the concerns and capacity of the team to partners - Introduces new and impactful technologies based on research, POC efforts and independent research