Golang Developer
Posted 2 weeks ago by Avance Consulting
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Burgess Hill, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Senior Golang Software Engineer at American Express involves working on a global Loyalty and Benefits platform, focusing on enhancing features within the Account domain. The position requires strong technical skills in Golang and experience with microservice architecture, as well as collaboration within a Scrum team. Candidates should possess excellent soft skills and a passion for learning, with opportunities for innovation and skill growth. The role emphasizes the importance of automated testing and CI/CD practices in delivering business functions and customer journeys.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and enhance features in the Account domain of the Loyalty and Benefits platform.
- Coordinate and collaborate with other Engineers across the platform to share knowledge and principles.
- Work within a Scrum framework to deliver business functions and customer journeys.
- Implement automated testing throughout the CI/CD pipeline to production.
Key Skills:
- Demonstrable experience in at least one back-end type safe programming language (Golang preferred).
- Comfortable with back-end micro-service architecture and communication, specifically REST and asynchronous messaging services (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Experience working within a Scrum framework.
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent work experience.
- Solid understanding of test-driven development and software engineering methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
- Knowledge of technologies such as Kafka, Postgres, Git, gRPC, Docker, GraphQL.
- Experience in continuous integration, continuous deployment, and continuous testing.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Burgess Hill
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
We're looking for an enthusiastic, diligent Senior 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)
- 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.