American Express · 5 days ago
Senior Engineer - Java/Golang
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Responsibilities
Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large scale enterprise applications/tools.
Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments.
Empower teams to automate demand driven scalable application deployments in test or production environments.
Apply specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives to identify complex and or broad problems and issues and formulate recommendations.
Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices.
Drive the technical roadmap for runtime systems, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of platforms.
Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for runtime and resiliency and drive continuous improvement efforts to meet or exceed these metrics.
Provide technical leadership and guidance to the team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability.
Act as a technical contributor by participating in architecture design, code reviews, and troubleshooting complex technical issues.
Design and implement innovative solution/framework that will improve software engineering velocity, infrastructure resiliency and security, and data availability.
Develop common framework components (to be leveraged by enterprise applications), define standards for configuration, monitoring, reliability, and performance engineering.
24X7 production environment, including on-call responsibilities.
Qualification
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Required
Bachelor's Degree
Experience in Development Operations or SRE.
5+ years of progressive experience in distributed environment.
Experience in designing mission-critical highly available enterprise applications coded in Java/Kotlin.
Experience with performance testing framework design, tuning Java applications.
Experience in managing relational and NoSQL databases.
Experience on enterprise toolset such as Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, BMC, Prometheus etc.
Experience with ELF.
Experience with agile software development methodologies and practices such as Scrum/Kanban, iterations, user stories.
Experience with Service-Oriented Architecture design principles, execution patterns, and performance optimization.
Experience in design, data structures and algorithms, and analytical and debugging skills.
Experience in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and containerization technologies
Experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and containerization technologies.
Preferred
Masters Degree
Strong interpersonal communication skills and the ability to work well in a diverse team-focused environment.
Strong knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering best practices, including incident management, monitoring, and capacity planning.
Liaise between Site Reliability Engineering, development, Product Owners, and other partner teams to improve performance and availability.
Ability to build positive relationships with your team, business, and technology partners to achieve established goals.
Ability to effectively interpret technical/business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions.
Influence and lead team members with creative thought leadership with data-driven changes and improvements by challenging the status quo.
Demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate to internal business clients and leadership on each facet of issue handling including (but not limited to): issue identification, service restoration, solutions to permanently resolve to ensure high levels of ongoing service etc.
Strong background in payment processing.
Benefits
Competitive base salaries
Bonus incentives
6% 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
Company
American Express
American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
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