Software Engineering Specialist

Role:
GoLang Engineer

Location:

Burgess hill, UK

Mode:
Hybrid( 3day a week)

Hiring Type:
Perm/ FTE

Were looking for an enthusiastic diligent 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 As a Software Engineer 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

• Demonstrable experience in at least one backend type safe programming language Golang Preferred
• Comfortable experienced with backend microservice architecture and communication specifically REST and asynchronous messaging services eg 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
• 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 andor JIRA and version control such as GIT or SVN

Mandatory Skills : Golang