Description

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

Responsibilities

- 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

Qualifications

- 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 recent 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.

📌 Senior Software Engineer I (Bengaluru)
🏢 American Express
📍 Bengaluru