Full stack engineer (Java)

American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) equips companies of all sizes with the insights, tools, services and expertise they need to keep their travelers informed, focused and productive while on the road. With approximately 12,000 employees and operations in nearly 120 countries worldwide, American Express GBT empowers customers to take control of their travel programs, optimizing the return on their travel and meetings investments, while, more importantly, providing extraordinary traveler care.

We're moving faster than ever and introducing new products, services, and strategies that will revolutionize the travel industry and bring greater value to our business customers. Our clients' success expands our success, so we put our heart and soul into helping our clients achieve results that exceed all expectations. As the world's largest travel management company, we are continuing to build alliances with key travel leaders and suppliers throughout the world, strengthening our position as a quality provider to companies of all sizes.

Get ready to make impressions that will last.

Role: Full stack engineer (Java)

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Performs hands-on software development & testing
• Functions as a core member of an agile team driving user story analysis, elaboration, design, development, testing and automation of software applications
• Performs ongoing refactoring of code & drives continuous improvement in code structure & quality. The engineer uses visualization and other techniques to fast track concepts
• Owns a list of technical requirements that need to be included in product backlog based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects & issues
• Liaises with technical Product Manager to help manage prioritization of items in product backlog for ongoing sprints
• May be assigned to a specific platform(s)/product(s) permanently or be part of a dynamic resource pool that gets assigned to projects as they come up
• Works with geographically dispersed users and development teams
• Communicates with business users, analysts, lead developers and project management
• May lead small dev teams

Key Qualifications:

• Minimum 8 years of software development experience
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated experience with Agile or similar rapid application development methods
• Proficient with SDLC/Agile tools (GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Agile/Kanban methodology)
• Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design

• Hands-on coding skills across Java, Kafka, Cassandra, WSO2, Spring Microservices
• Linux OpenShift / AWS (ROSA) experience HIGHLY preferred
• Experience with Jenkins or similar dev ops tools

• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, as well as desktop client/server, and relational/XML databases
• Experience with SQL/Stored procedure development as well as .Net core.
• Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software
• Proven ability to think extemporaneously and solve complex problems.
• Ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical people
• Ability to collaborate with other teams
• Travel and GDS experience is a plus
• Flexible schedule - must be willing to work off-hours with clients and teams in other time zones.
• Familiar with industry trends and new technologies - Docker & virtualization is a plus.

Location
United States - Arizona - Phoenix

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