American Express
Software Engineer
American ExpressUnited Kingdom14 days ago
ContractEngineering

Years of Experience: 6-9 years

Skills: Java, Go, Spring, Vert.X, Oracle, Postgres/ql, Couchbase, SRE


As a Software Engineer, you'll help to build world class software through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation). You'll contribute to the design, development, troubleshooting, debugging, evaluation, modification, deployment, and documentation of software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications. Key Responsibilities: Building software to expected quality and standards using distributed enterprise frameworks Participating in code, test & other quality reviews Debugging basic software components and identify code defects for remediation Enabling the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments Automating deployments in test and production environments Scaling applications based on demand projections Minimum Qualifications: Education & Experience Up to 4+ years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience with the following: Hands on Java application design, software development and automated testing (Java 8 and higher) Intermediate knowledge of infrastructure technologies and components - familiarity with Cloud computing Experience with Event-driven/Micro-services architecture for high-availability/distributed systems. Experience using Spring Framework, Junit, GitHub, Microservices, Splunk and API's Experience with Test driven development and unit testing frameworks. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as GIT and code build tools like IntelliJ, Redhat JBoss, etc., including DevOps concepts an CI/CD tools. Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods University Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent experience

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