Senior Software Development Engineer

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and - through their work - can make an impact on our industry. We re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.

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• What You ll do on a Typical Day:

  • Lead an engineering team to build, operate, streamline, and maintain our Technology solutions to meet our suppliers and customers evolving needs.

  • Take a whole systems approach to analyze use cases, design, implement, and maintain integrated solutions applying standard engineering methodologies
  • Successfully conduct day-to-day activities and solve complex issues in your engineering domain
  • Research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns
  • Creatively test and maintain software applications and related systems using a variety of software development tools
  • Lead and participate in design and code reviews
  • Partner with Product to refine business requirements
  • Collaborate with peers across regions, within and outside your direct organization
  • Seek and share domain and industry knowledge between multi-functional teams to improve engineering practices
  • Possess knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases, and platforms to connect different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem
  • Advocate for operational excellence and project quality via system resilience and scalability, testing, monitoring, alerting
  • Report on the status of high-visibility projects to leadership
  • Enthusiastically seek opportunities to improve our customers experiences
  • Guide other engineers in the design of software that is easily maintainable, testable, and observable

  • Demonstrate leadership in mentoring, establishing standards in documentation and clean code, and setting a professional example to the team.

  What We re looking for:

  • Have a bachelors degree with at least 10 years of relevant work experience.

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to work well within and across software engineering teams, as well as other functions of the company.

  • Excellent skills at encouraging working relationships and driving teamwork.

  • Experience in working with leadership across multiple product and engineering areas.

  • Draw on experience to lead technical designs and implementation of highly scalable and adaptable systems.

  • Expertise of professional software engineering practices and standard methodologies for the full software development process, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

  • Technical skills: Java based technologies, micro-services architecture, cloud-native and distributed computing.

  • Exposure to delivering products using cloud infrastructure.

  Technologies we currently use include Java, Amazon Web Services, Spring Boot, Kotlin, React.js, REST, GraphQL, Cucumber, Selenium, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Jenkins, Kibana, Datadog.

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The #TeamGBT Experience

Work and life: Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.

• Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and more.

• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.

• Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with global tuition assistance, access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.

• We strive to champion Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in every aspect of our business at GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global Inclusion Groups, centered around common identities or initiatives, to discuss challenges, obstacles, achievements, and drive company awareness and action.

• Wellbeing resources to support mental and emotional health for you and your immediate family.

• And much more!

This role is for Egencia LLC ( Egencia or the Company ), a member of the American Express Global Business Travel family of companies.

All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, gender (and characteristics related to sex and gender), pregnancy (and related medical conditions), race, color, citizenship, religion, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by law.

Furthermore, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the hiring process. For details regarding how we protect your data, please consult GBT Recruitment Privacy Statement .

What if I don t meet every requirement If you re passionate about our mission and believe you d be a phenomenal addition to our team, don t worry about checking every box;" please apply anyway. You may be exactly the person we re looking for!