Senior Golang Engineer - Global Loyalty & Benefits

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As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives.  Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems.  American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source.  And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development.  Find your place in technology of #TeamAmex.

Global Loyalty & Benefits is in the middle of an exciting transformation journey, and we need talented engineers who are willing to learn, collaborate, innovate, and adapt to emerging trends and customer
demands.  Our Loyalty platforms enable many of Amex’s most critical customer differentiators
including the flagship Membership Rewards program, and we are constantly seeking new ways to offer
value to our customers and drive growth for the company.

We are looking for an innovative, experienced, and talented senior software engineer to join our API
domain team. You will work closely with our product and development teams to develop new system
capabilities at scale and optimize existing capabilities. As part of the API team, you will be responsible
for building and maintaining highly available and high-performance rest APIs. You will also be
responsible for the core components that make up our modern microservice platform, driving performance and resiliency, as we scale to take over our classic applications.

Responsibilities:

• Serving as a core member of an engineering team that designs and develops software
  applications. 
• Owning the designs of pieces of the systems, accounting for reliability and availability including
  identifying and handling failure modes.
• Writing code and unit tests, working on API specs, automation, and conducting code reviews and
  testing, and documenting processes
• Identifying exciting opportunities for adopting new technologies to solve existing needs and
  predicting future challenges.
• Performing ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast-track
  concepts, and delivering continuous improvement.
• Working with product managers to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of
  technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues. 
• Build POCs to experiment new technologies, databases and other application infrastructure.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of software development experience, with a BS or MS degree in computer
  science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline.
• Deep expertise in Golang, Kafka and REST API.
• Experience in designing and implementing highly scalable, low latency Go based applications
• Core competencies in cloud-native, distributed technologies including Java, Go, Kotlin, APIs (REST), Kafka, Elastic, Couchbase, JUnit, Jenkins, and Maven applications.
• Knowledge/experience on Google Cloud Platform is highly desirable
• Team player and a hands-on engineer.
• Experience leading, mentoring and coaching junior engineers.
• Hands on experience in multi-threading/concurrency programming.
• Working knowledge of http(s), tcp/ip, and ssh protocols.
• Basic high availability techniques and implementation knowledge.
• Practical knowledge of caching and distributed systems.
• Staying in touch with industry standards and current technologies is expected.
• Hands-on experience in implementing web applications and API services using REST.
• Experience in profiling / performance analysis of applications.
• Commitment to software practices of continuous Integration, automated/repeatable testing, and collaborative work environments.
• Ability to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems.
• Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation.
• Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software.
• Experience working with streaming solutions is highly desirable (preferably Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams).
• Hands on experience in the full stack software development is desirable

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries 
• Bonus incentives 
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) 
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program 
• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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