Sr Software Engineer II - Global Commercial Services Technology
American Express5 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$123k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy scalable backend services and APIs using Golang in AWS environments.
- Build microservices using domain-driven design, hexagonal architecture, and other modern architectural patterns.
- Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to define service contracts and platform capabilities.
- Mentor engineers and foster collaboration across distributed engineering teams.
- Evaluate and integrate SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions.
- Participate in architecture reviews, RFCs, and proof-of-concept initiatives.
- Develop scalable, resilient, and observable distributed systems.
- Design and implement event-driven architectures and streaming solutions using Kafka and messaging technologies.
- Integrate workflow orchestration and durable execution frameworks such as Camunda and Temporal.
- Design and manage relational, graph, document, search, and OLAP data systems.
- Build and operate cloud-native systems using AWS Lambda, ECS, SQS, API Gateway, RDS, and S3.
- Implement logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing using tools such as Datadog.
- Establish backend engineering standards, best practices, and system design conventions.
- Plan and estimate engineering work, mitigate risks, resolve blockers, and communicate progress to stakeholders and leadership.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience focused on backend systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Strong hands-on experience building backend services with Golang.
- Strong experience designing and deploying systems in AWS cloud environments.
- Experience with distributed systems, APIs, and microservices architectures.
- Experience with domain-driven design and modern architectural patterns.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL data storage technologies.
- Experience with distributed Postgres-compatible databases such as CockroachDB.
- Experience integrating workflow orchestration platforms such as Camunda or Temporal.
- Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and performance optimization tools such as Datadog.
- Experience collaborating across cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
- Experience integrating AI/ML models into backend systems is preferred.
- Entrepreneurial mindset and passion for building scalable systems.
- Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required.
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About American Express
American Express builds a global payments network and issues consumer, small-business, and corporate cards, plus merchant acquiring and travel services. Revenue comes from card fees, interest and lending, discount/merchant fees, and network services. Founded in 1850 and headquartered in New York City, it operates the Amex acceptance network worldwide and offers co-branded cards and membership rewards across millions of cardmembers and merchants; ticker NYSE: AXP.