Developer Golang

CBTS; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

CBTS is seeking an enthusiastic Golang Software Engineer in Greater London to work on a global Loyalty and Benefits platform for American Express. The role involves building features within a microservice architecture, requiring strong technical skills and teamwork. The ideal candidate will have experience in back-end programming, especially with Golang, and familiarity with tools like Kafka and Docker. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field is preferred. Join a collaborative Scrum team focused on innovation and quality delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience in Golang or another back-end programming language.
• Familiar with micro-service architecture and asynchronous messaging.
• Knowledge of test-driven development methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance features in the Account domain.
• Work in a Scrum team to deliver tested and automated business functions.
• Coordinate with other Engineers to share knowledge.

Skills

Golang

Kafka

Docker

REST

Scrum

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

Git

gRPC

Postgres

Job description

Location: Burgess Hill 3 days/week

Visa sponsorship is not available.

We're looking for an enthusiastic, diligent Golang Software Engineer to work on the global Loyalty and Benefits platform in American Express.

The candidate should have excellent soft skills, strong technical ability with an extensive passion to learn. A modern microservice-based Loyalty and Benefits platform, designed to be able to handle all aspects of the Loyalty and Benefits customer experience, globally. Built using modern tools such as Golang, Kafka and Docker, there is ample opportunity to drive innovation and grow knowledge and skills as an Engineer. As a Software Engineer on a Scrum team, you will be building and enhancing features in the Account domain. You will also coordinate and work with other Engineers across the platform to share knowledge and principals.

Required

Demonstrable experience in at least one back-end type safe programming language (Golang preferred but other experience can be considered). Comfortable/experienced with back-end micro-service architecture and communication, specifically REST and asynchronous messaging services (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ etc.). Comfortable/experience within a Scrum framework working as part of a team to deliver business functions and customer journeys that are tested and automated throughout the CICD pipeline to production.

Desired

Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience. Experience in professional software development. Solid understanding of test-driven development, including unit, component, functional, system integration and regression tests.

Skills

Knowledge of software engineering methodology (Agile, incl Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Waterfall). Knowledge of any or all of the following technologies is desired: Kafka, Postgres, Golang, Git, gRPC, Docker, GraphQL. Experienced in continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD) and continuous testing (CT), including tools such as Jenkins, Rally and/or JIRA and version control such as GIT or SVN.