Golang Engineer

American Express•New York, NY

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. Global Loyalty & Benefits is in the middle of an exciting transformation journey, and we need talented engineers who are willing to learn, collaborate, innovate, and adapt to emerging trends and customer demands. Our Loyalty platforms enable many of Amex’s most critical customer differentiators including the flagship Membership Rewards program, and we are constantly seeking new ways to offer value to our customers and drive growth for the company. We are looking for an innovative, experienced, and talented software engineer to join our R42 Rewards team. You will work closely with our product and development teams to develop new system capabilities at scale and optimize existing capabilities. As part of the Rewards team, you will be responsible for building new capabilities the will help enable the rewards journey in different markets within. The successful candidate will be focused on building and executing against a strategy and roadmap focused on moving from monolithic, tightly coupled, batch-based legacy platforms to a loosely coupled, event-driven, microservices-based architecture to meet our long-term business goals.

Requirements

Position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
2 to 3 years of experience in application design, software development, and testing, preferably in an Agile environment.
2+ years of experience with Golang and cloud technologies
Experience with relational databases, including IBM DB2.
Experience designing and developing components via MQ technologies.
Experience with continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Gitlab CI, GitHub Actions)
Experience with automated build and test frameworks a plus.
A proven hunger to learn new technologies and translate them into working software.
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.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of payments industry
Experience with open-source frameworks – especially maintaining or contributing to open-source projects
Experience with coding skills across a variety of distributed technologies
Experience with a broad range of software languages and payments technologies

Responsibilities

Responsible for leading projects, designing system solutions, developing custom applications, and modifying existing applications to meet distinct and changing business requirements.
Handle coding, debugging, and documentation, as well working closely with other team domains.
Provide post implementation and ongoing production support
Develop and design software applications, translating user needs into system architecture. Assess and validate application performance and integration of component systems and provide process flow diagrams.
Test the engineering resilience of software and automation tools.
You will be challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our loyalty platform. You will be working on the core components of our modern loyalty platform which supports the key element of connecting with our customers and their interaction with American Express.
Be part of an enthusiastic, high performing technology team developing solutions to drive engagement and loyalty within our existing cardmember base and attract new customers to the Amex brand.
The position will also play a critical role partnering with other development teams, testing and quality, and production support, to meet implementation dates and allow smooth transition throughout the development life-cycle.

Benefits

Competitive base salaries
Bonus incentives
6%25 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