Golang Developer

Key Responsibilities :

Responsible for designing system solutions developing custom applications and modifying existing applications to meet distinct and changing business requirements.

Handle coding debugging and documentation as well working closely with SRE team. Provide post implementation and ongoing production support

Develop and design software applications translating user needs into system architecture. Assess and validate application performance and integration of component systems and provide process flow diagrams.

Test the engineering resilience of software and automation tools.

You will be challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers.

Software Engineers who join our Loyalty Technology team will be assigned to one of several exciting teams that are developing a new nimble and modern loyalty platform which will support the key element of connecting with our customers where they are and how they choose to interact with American Express.

• Be part of an enthusiastic high performing technology team developing solutions to drive engagement and loyalty within our existing cardmember base and attract new customers to the Amex brand.
• The position will also play a critical role partnering with other development teams testing and quality and production support to meet implementation dates and allow smooth transition throughout the development lifecycle.
• The successful candidate will be focused on building and executing against a strategy and roadmap focused on moving from monolithic tightly coupled batchbased legacy platforms to a loosely coupled eventdriven microservicesbased architecture to meet our longterm business goals.

Minimum Qualifications :

• Position requires a Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field followed by 4 years of experience in a modern development stack Golang Kafka REST API
• Experience in application design software development and testing in an Agile environment. Experience with relational and NoSQL databases including PostgreSQL Couchbase or Cassandra.
• Experience designing and developing REST APIs for high volume clients.
• Experience with continuous integration tools (Jenkins Gitlab CI).
• Experience with automated build and test frameworks a plus.
• 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 problemsolving / 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 payments industry
• Experience with coding skills across a variety of distributed technologies
• Experience with opensource frameworks is a plus especially maintaining or contributing to open source projects!
• Experience with a broad range of software languages and payments technologies
5 days ago