Golang Developer

We are building a banking platform that enables teams to create products at scale and power digitals channels to deliver compelling experiences in a dramatically faster fashion. As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining banking systems that support high transaction volumes with security and scalability. You will work on a range of banking products, including payment systems, data & reporting, and customer account management solutions. We look first and foremost for people who are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. You will be required to apply your depth of

knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders daily to stay focused on common goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. We welcome diverse perspectives and people who are not afraid to challenge assumptions. Our mission is to accelerate the pace of financial innovation and build new financial products for American Express. Our platform streamlines the process of launching and iterating financial products.

Responsibilities:

• Function as member of a software engineering team by contributing to software builds

through consistent development practices

• Debug basic 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
• Adhere to security and regulatory requirements
• Design and contribute to API implementations
• Follow best practices for automated unit, integration and regression testing
• Participate in pull request reviews to ensure quality code delivery
• Build software as part of a nimble Agile Team where you have every opportunity impact

to team goals and contribute to the overall architecture

• Ensure our infrastructure is safely extensible, scalable, reliable and meets SLAs for both

external and internal users

• Ensure our software solutions are testable, intuitive, and easy to maintain

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of software development, testing and implementation experience
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or

a related STEM field

• Core competencies in modern programming languages such as Golang, Kotlin and/or Java,

including REST APIs, JSON, Kafka, RDBMS & NoSQL database technologies (such as

MongoDB, Redis, & PostgreSQL), Spring Boot, GIT, Jenkins, Linux/Unix, Gradle/Maven and

Agile development methodologies

• Hands-on experience in implementing highly scalable, low latency software applications

using multi-threaded, asynchronous & reactive programming

• Practical experience deploying containerized software applications to cloud computing

environments using technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker

• Basic high availability techniques and implementation knowledge
• Experience in profiling / performance analysis of applications
• Commitment to modern software practices of continuous Integration,

automated/repeatable testing and collaborative work environments

• Ability to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems, enabling

business capabilities through innovation

• Demonstrated willingness to learn innovative technologies and takes pride in how fast

you develop working software

• Have excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Familiarity with CI/CD automation tools such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience with payment systems or real-time transaction platforms
• Experience in API development for fintech applications
• Hands-on experience in full-stack software development is desirable