Golang - Engineer II - Premium

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Engineer II Premium Requirements
Were looking for an enthusiastic, diligent Golang Software Engineer to work on the global Loyalty and Benefits platform in American Express.

The candidate should have excellent soft skills, strong technical ability with an extensive passion to learn. A modern microservice-based Loyalty and Benefits platform, designed to be able to handle all aspects of the Loyalty and Benefits customer experience, globally. Built using modern tools such as Golang, Kafka and Docker, there is ample opportunity to drive innovation and grow knowledge and skills as an Engineer. As a Software Engineer on an Scrum team, you will be building and enhancing features in the Account domain. You will also coordinate and work with other Engineers across the platform to share knowledge and principals.

Required: Demonstrable experience in at least one back-end type safe programming language (Golang Preferred but other experience can be considered) Comfortable/experienced with back-end micro-service architecture and communication, specifically REST and asynchronous messaging services (e. g. , Kafka, RabbitMQ etc. ) Comfortable/experience within a Scrum framework working with as part of a team to deliver business functions and customer journeys that are tested and automated throughout the CICD pipeline to production

Desired: Bachelors Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience. Experience in professional software development. Solid understanding of test-driven development, including unit, component, functional, system integration and regression tests.

Knowledge of software engineering methodology (Agile, incl Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Waterfall) Knowledge of any or all of the following technologies is desired: Kafka, Postgres, Golang, Git, gRPC, Docker, GraphQL Experienced in continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD) and continuous testing (CT), including tools such as Jenkins, Rally and/or JIRA and version control such as GIT or SVN