Senior Golang Developer

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At American Express, you'll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company's success. Together, we'll win as a team, striving to uphold ourcompany valuesand powerful backing promise to provide the world's best customer experience every day. And we'll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.
Join Team Amex's Global Loyalty and Benefits organization and let's lead the way together.
Global Loyalty and Benefits
Global Loyalty and Benefits powers the Membership Reward points, Amex Offers, Insurance, and Card benefits for 112+ million cards in 58+ markets worldwide.We create loyalty & benefit experiences for our customers with a team of software, product, engineering, and delivery talent using agile practices to build highly available, nimble, extensible and modern applications, this Position is for Global Loyalty and Benefits Engineering Department.
About the job
We're looking forversatileengineers who bring fresh ideas,display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new engineering problems, they will be working on themodern platform built using event driven architecture with best-in-class technologies (Golang, Docker, Kafka, Postgres etc.,). which is highly scalable and capable of supporting up to 10K TPS. You will be building Multiple Reward/Benefit customer experience journeys, you will lead a software development team of 4+ engineers in Global Loyalty platform.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, code and test Golang services to meet product requirements, this includes writing efficient, reusable and reliable code.
Work closely with Product owners/managers, other developers to integrate backend services with various components
Lead code reviews, debug existing code and refactor to improve performance or extend functionality
Contribute to system architecture, focusing on scalability, performance and security
Write and maintain comprehensive documentation for discovery, solution and system components.
Develop and maintain unit/component/E2E integration tests to ensure software reliability
Deploy and test the code in dev test and staging environments and document test evidence prior moving the code to production
Assist with production deployment and ensure smooth CI/CD pipeline process
Participate in agile development processes including sprint planning, stand-ups, demos and retrospectives
Adhere to security and regulatory best practices
Own a sub module development with an E2E understanding including infrastructure
Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred
5+ years of experience with software development in a professional environment
2 + years of experience with software development in Go
Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail, Strong communication skills both verbal and written
Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes or other container orchestration technologies
Solid understanding/experience of test-driven development, including unit, component, functional, system integration and regression tests
Experience with back-end micro-service architecture and communication, specifically REST and asynchronous messaging services
Understanding of concurrent programming and networking in Go
Experience with version control systems, particularly Git.
Ability to work in a team environment as well as independently
Commitment to write clean maintainable code with good documentation practices
Experience with test case design, test automation and execution
Experience working with relational/NoSQL databases
Proven experience with leading teams of engineers
Wide breath of engineering experience
Ability to lead and own an individual module development
Mentor and guide success within the team
Exposure to distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases

Preferred Qualifications:
Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods
Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud 
Experience working with popular Go's 3rd party libraries 
Experience leading multiple scrum teams 
Experience working with GitHub copilot chat 
Experience working with Comcast Rulio or other rule libraries
Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking
Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analysing workflow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results
Drives the team's strategy and prioritizes initiatives
Takes accountability for the success of the team achieving their goals
Finds opportunities to embrace innovative technologies to enable business capabilities

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
Competitive base salaries 
Bonus incentives 
Support for financial-well-being and retirement 
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) 
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) 
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

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Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.