Senior Engineer Ii - Travel & Lifestyle

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Travel & Lifestyle Services

American Express entered the travel agency business in 1915, and today is one of the world's largest luxury travel and lifestyle service networks. The Travel & Lifestyle Services (TLS) business provides exclusive access, differentiated value, extraordinary service, and unrivalled expertise to Card Members seeking leisure or business travel, as well as a variety of lifestyle services. The Global Digital Customer Experience is a strategic focus area for growth within Travel and Lifestyle Services and there is significant continuing investment to transform and optimize our digital proposition and capabilities. American Express Travel Online not only drives direct revenue and cost savings but also plays an important role in overall Card product engagement, loyalty and satisfaction.
About the Role & Key Responsibilities

We are looking for a highly motivated, independent, and skilled engineer to architect, design and build microservices for travel applications.
Application Solutioning

• Architect and design the rails based on domain driven design in collaboration with solution architect, staff engineer, business architects and consumer partners.
• Present solutions on an ongoing basis in wider forums including senior leaders to seek feedback, make continuous adjustments and drive sign offs.
• Document architecture, technical requirements, high-level and low-level designs to include component design, data models, integration views, infrastructure design and software technology stack.
• Conduct quantitative comparative analysis on solution options.

Software Development

• Sets up the infrastructure and the development environments.
• Writes and delivery high quality code in latest versions of Kotlin and / or Java
• Leads review of colleague's work
• Builds monitoring dashboards and logging & alerting strategies.
• Monitors system performance and availability and improves software quality through root cause analysis.
• Deep understanding of infrastructure technologies and components
• Has deep understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analysing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)

Leadership

• Prepares and presents solutions and progress updates to product and technology leadership
• Collaborates and communicates effectively across engineering and enterprise teams.
• Mentors and coaches junior team members
• Influences team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking.
• Demonstrates increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.

Essential Criteria

• Significant experience of software development experience in a professional environment such as:
• Experienced in designing, programming, testing, and application design for microservices or backend for front ends for mobile applications using Kotlin or Java 17 and above, Spring and build automation with Maven or Gradle.
• Observability - Sentry, ELK, Dynatrace.
• Experienced technically leading an agile engineering team and contributing to agile ceremonies.
• Deep Knowledge of cloud and CI/CD technologies, and how to get code into production quickly and reliably with GitHub Actions, Circle CI.
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required, advanced degree preferred.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience with front end engineering with React Javascript library and Redux.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.