Golang Engineer
American Express
Golang Engineer
Salary Not Specified
American Express, Burgess Hill, West Sussex
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 17 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: a55b8accf9ee4fd8a90089f0374b3007
Full Job Description
- Working within an agile team developing solutions to drive engagement and loyalty within our existing cardmember base and attract new customers to the Amex brand.
- Expectation to be able to learn and to contribute in Golang, becoming increasingly self-reliant to deliver working software to meet product needs.
- Contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components and documentation)
- Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation.
- Enable the development, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
- Automate deployments in test or production environments.
- Automatically scale applications based on the demand projections.
- Partnering with other development teams, testing and quality, and production support, to meet implementation dates and allow smooth transition throughout the development lifecycle.
If you have the talent and desire to learn new technologies and you have a track record of strong technical and architectural leadership then we need you to help us build the core, powering our customer experiences., Significant years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as: - Experience as a hands-on software engineer who can build high quality software using a modern development stack. Significant Golang experience is strongly preferred.
- Experience in application design, software development, and testing, preferably in an Agile environment.
- Experience working with Git on small to medium sized teams.
- Experience with open source frameworks is a plus - especially maintaining or contributing to open source projects!
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, redis, Couchbase, or Cassandra is a plus.
- Experience with continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Github Actions) a plus.
- 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, a plus.
- Experience with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.), a plus.
- 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.
- Contributions to opensource projects/inner source is a plus
With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you'll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that's unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally. - Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- Support for financial-well-being and retirement
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
- 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
At American Express, you'll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact-every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company's success. Together, we'll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world's best customer experience every day. And we'll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.
Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.
Global Loyalty & Benefits are undertaking an exciting transformation and we need talented engineers and engineering leads who are willing to learn, collaborate and innovate, adapting to emerging trends and customer demands. You will be part of a growing team, where your experience and knowledge will be crucial to the success of scaling our innovative new backend platform which is driving our world-class cardmember experiences and enabling experiences of the future.
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: