Engineer I Job in Bengaluru at American Express

American Express is hiring for the role of Engineer I!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Function as a member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development and test practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation.
• Perform technical development for applications including architecture, design, developing prototypes, writing new code and API's and performing unit and assembly testing of developed software also as needed
• Hand-on architecture working closely with solution architects and architecture governance technical team for solution development and design reviews
• Typically spends 60-70% of time writing code and testing, and remainder of time managing team and stakeholders through ongoing product/platform release sprints
• Perform code reviews, make design decisions and ensure constant focus on quality and clearing technical debt items in the backlog.
• Improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability of our data pipelines.
• Work on cross-functional initiatives and collaborate with Engineers across the organizations.
• Build CICD pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
• Build automation for application changes and deployment for faster time to market.
• Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
• Perform ongoing refactoring of code, quality assurance and testing, applying best practice methodologies and processes.

Requirements:

• Computer Science, or equivalent degree or industry experience.
• Up to 2 years of software development experience in a professional environment.
• Strong OOPs concepts, concurrency, exception handling etc.
• Data structures and Algorithms, Strong OS fundamentals, Advanced Java concepts
• Strong development experience using languages Java/ Go. Keen understanding of how to build highly performant systems with such languages.
• Hands on experience in building distributed micro-service systems, experience with Service Mesh products/frameworks like such as Envoy, Linkerd, Istio, gRPC/ProtoBuf; Distributed System Management/tracing and monitoring such as Zipkin/Jaeger, ELK Stack, Prometheus
• Have experience in designing and building Cloud native applications. Experience in cloud platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift are a plus.
• Experience in using NoSQL databases and distributed messaging systems such as Redis, Kafka, Couchbase, Cassandra in the context of low latency and high transaction volume systems.
• Experience working in DevOps teams and Scrums.
• Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
• Proficient oral and written communication skills.