Golang Job: Engineer - React-Javascript, Python, Golang

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible — and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way.

When you join Team Amex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we champion your meaningful career journey with programs, benefits, and flexibility to back you personally and professionally. Every colleague shares in the company’s success.

Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to our customers, communities, and each other every day. And, we’ll do it with integrity and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they truly belong.

Join #TeamAmex and let’s lead the way together.

As part of our diverse team, you can architect, code and ship and support software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. At Amex, you can work alongside hardworking engineers and business teams in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems.

Amex offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open and inner source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex, while being a strong influencer in your role.

Our team is seeking a driven, well-rounded software engineering professional to join our growing team. In this role, you will work with a multi-functional team responsible for assessing production readiness for new applications, features, and infrastructure changes. You must be a self-starter! Eager to learn new technology trends, and partner with the business teams to ensure technology changes do not impact our customers.

If you are an engineer with a passion for operating things and the desire to understand full stack (business down to infrastructure), and you embrace the instinct to support defects, solve and code problems away, then this dynamic role is for you!

Focus

Designs, develops, solves problems, debugs, evaluates, modifies, deploys, and documents software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.

In addition to developing new features and building new functions, this role will deliver the following functions:

• Integrate new automations with the Enterprise Automation Platform (eAP)
• Perform Quality Assurance (QA) and establish quality testing principles and practices
• Produce and maintain technical documentation
• Provide production support to the platform

Key Responsibilities

Quality Assurance / Testing

• Provides domain expertise to engineers on Automation, Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) methodologies and processes.
• Works with engineers to drive improvements in code quality via manual and automated testing.
• Develops test plans, testing resource requirements, and overall scheduling of testing tasks.
• Designs, monitors, and analyzes quality assurance metrics such as defect, defect counts, test results, and test status.
• Recognizes opportunities to adopt creative testing technologies and techniques.
• Looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.

Software Development

• Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Participate in code reviews and automated testing
• Functions as a platform SME who drives quality and automation strategy at application level, identifies new opportunities and drives Software Engineers to deliver the highest quality code.
• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation
• Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
• Automate deployments in test or production environments
• Automatically scale applications based on demand projections

Leadership

• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. Amex offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

Education & Experience:

Up to 6 years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:

• Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods
• Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate
• Hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
• Confirmed experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred

Knowledge/Skills:

• Strong coding experience with one or more of the following: React/Javascript, Python, Golang
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and experience building or working on APIs
• Strong self-starter and problem-solver. Someone who takes the lead and proactively work to fix problems
• Experience with testing frameworks such as Postman, Selenium, Pytest and Jest
• Exposure and knowledge of Quality Assurance techniques and practices
• Able to understand and use complex data structures and associated components
• Designs, codes, tests, maintains, and documents applications
• Lead reviews of colleagues' work
• Defines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications provided
• Has deep understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)
• Deep understanding of infrastructure technologies and components

Nice to have:

• Experience with Kafka, Docker, Ansible, NoSQL databases like Couchbase, CI/CD, unit tests, Postman, Splunk
• Experience with Linux-based systems
• Understanding of basic networking and infrastructure

High Performance Behaviors:

• Recognizes opportunities to adopt innovative technologies to enable business capabilities
• Keeps up to date on current research and technology in the industry
• Recognizes the importance of collaboration to achieve objectives
• Clearly communicates ideas and concepts to others
• Finds opportunities within projects and acts on own initiative without being prompted, including making appropriate decisions as vital
• Provides feedback to team members in code reviews
• Drive creative changes & continuous improvements
• Mentors and guides junior team members to success within the team

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That’s why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

If the role you are applying for is designated as hybrid or onsite, you will be required to demonstrate that you have completed your primary COVID-19 vaccination series (i.e., 2 doses for Moderna/Pfizer and 1 dose for J&J) in order to work in or visit any of our offices. This requirement is subject to legally required accommodations.

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