Overview
Enthusiastic, diligent Senior Golang Software Engineer to work on the global Loyalty and Benefits platform in American Express. The candidate should have excellent soft skills, strong technical ability with an extensive passion to learn.
The role involves building a modern microservice-based Loyalty and Benefits platform, designed to handle all aspects of the Loyalty and Benefits customer experience globally. Built using modern tools such as Golang, Kafka and Docker. There is ample opportunity to drive innovation and grow knowledge and skills as an Engineer.
As a Software Engineer on a Scrum team, you will be building and enhancing features in the Account domain. You will also coordinate and work with other Engineers across the platform to share knowledge and principles.
Responsibilities
* Build and enhance features in the Account domain as part of a Scrum team.
* Coordinate with other Engineers across the platform to share knowledge and principles.
Qualifications
* Demonstrable experience in at least one back-end type safe programming language (Golang preferred).
* Comfortable/experienced with back-end micro-service architecture and communication, specifically REST and asynchronous messaging services (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
* Comfortable/experience within a Scrum framework, delivering business functions and customer journeys that are tested and automated throughout the CI/CD pipeline to production.
* Bachelors Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience.
* Experience in professional software development.
* Strong understanding of test-driven development, including unit, component, functional, system integration and regression tests.
* Knowledge of software engineering methodology (Agile, incl Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, TDD, BDD and Waterfall). Technologies such as Kafka, Postgres, Golang, Git, gRPC, Docker, GraphQL are desirable.
* Experience in continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD) and continuous testing (CT) with tools such as Jenkins, Rally and/or JIRA and version control (GIT or SVN).
Employment details
* Employment type: Contract
* Location: Based in London Victoria or Burgess Hill
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