Staff Engineer Job in Gurgaon at American Express

American Express is hiring for the role of Staff Engineer!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging the status quo and demonstrating risk-taking.
• Communicate, collaborate, and proactively engage with teammates (and cross-functional teams alike) to ensure requirements are delivered on time.
• Be accountable to the team for the delivery of quality work.

Requirements: 

• Experience coding in at least one or more languages: Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, JavaScript, C++
• Experience implementing highly-available, reliable, and secure APIs, services, and infrastructure to support large-scale initiatives, primarily in the AWS or GCP ecosystems
• Experience working with 3^rd party Commercial off-the-shelf software providers (COTS) understanding their products, the hosting environments, and integration patterns and comparing to internally-built options
• A passion for coaching and engaging engineers of all levels, bringing their talent, skills and experience up to pull the organization forward
• Solid Engineering Principles (OOP/Func Paradigms, TDD, DDD, SoC, MicroServices, Caching Strategies)
• Experience with CICD pipelines (ie: Jenkins/CircleCI/XLR/Git/GitHub Actions)
• Experience deploying to cloud-based infrastructure resources (DevOps, CloudOps, SecOps, or SRE experience a plus)
• Experience with container technologies and runtimes (docker, containers, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, etc.)
• Experience with different architectures: (ie: MVC, microservices, async/event-based, task-based, workflow-based, ETLs, data pipelines)
• Experience with relational database engines (ie: MySQL, Postgres, MemSQL)
• Solid understanding of NoSQL technologies (ie: HBase, Cassandra, Redis, Memcached)
• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions
• Strong analytical skills and programming skills, in a production environment
• Experience contributing to Open-Source Software (OSS) projects