Senior Software Engineer I

GLB is a global organization dedicated to building loyalty products that create meaningful connections with customers and power the American Express brand.

• 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
• 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.