Senior Engineer - Golang-GL&B - job 3 of 5

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

 The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

 The Global Loyalty & Benefits Platform is part of the larger Enterprise Platforms Technology unit where product and engineering resources have been organizationally brought together to improve speed to market and further unlock value across core capabilities. The Global Loyalty & Benefits Platform serves a broad set of products and solutions across the enterprise that require close collaboration with colleagues who develop new card products, digital channels, marketing operations, membership rewards, co-brand programs, card benefits, analytics, operations excellence and servicing. The focus of the Loyalty API domain is building high performing APIs that power the world’s best Loyalty & Benefit experiences for our customers. 

 How will you make an impact in this role?

In the role of Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for taking on the role of an individual  contributor for the applications critical in the to the R42 Loyalty Platform in the Amex environment.

Engineering strategic frameworks, processes, and robust scalable applications that can meet the needs of a high regulated environment.

You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable framework/services/applications/pipelines for processing huge volume of data. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions that meet our organizational needs.

Job Description:

• GCP Architecture design and build solutions, Big table, Spanner, Cassandra, SQL, and various Cloud technologies
• Design and develop solutions using technologies on premise as well as on public cloud.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of solutions.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality.
• Conduct IT requirements gathering.
• Define problems and provide solution alternatives.
• Create detailed system design documentation.
• Conduct knowledge transfer with the objective of providing high-quality solutions and expanding the base of SME knowledge.
• Support team in different phases of the initiative delivery including problem definition, effort estimation, diagnosis, solution generation, design and deployment.
• Participate in unit-level and organizational initiatives with the objective of providing high-quality and value adding consulting solutions.
• Understand issues and diagnose root-cause of issues. Perform secondary research as instructed to assist in strategy and business planning.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in cloud applications with experience in leading a team
• Industry knowledge on GCP Cloud Applications and deployment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering, or a related field.
• Should be able to write shell scripts.
• Utilize Git for source version control.
• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing applications.
• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions
• Experience with managing teams and balance multiple priorities.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
• Strong experience with private and public cloud application engineering.
• Strong background with Golang.
• Cloud experience with GCP is must
• Excellent communication and analytical skills
• Excellent team-player with ability to work with global team

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven experience as an Application Engineer or similar role.
• Strong proficiency in programming using Golang.
• Experience with micro service design principles.
• Solid understanding of data modelling.
• Knowledge on Unix/Linux and Shell scripting principles.

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 you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• 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.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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