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Backend Software Engineer

Remote
Any
Actively hiring

Backend Software Engineer

American Express
Remote
Any
American Express
Actively hiring

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Global Merchant Services Technology is on an exciting journey to redefine the merchant payment experience. Our Merchant platform is a distributed near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year.
If you like to challenge the status quo and desire to use best in class technology, it's time to join the GMST organization which strives for continuous innovation. Are you a change agent with a deep engineering passion to build outstanding products for merchants? If so, we are looking for an enthusiastic, driven, and forward-thinking Software Engineer to join us on our mission
 
How will you make an impact in this role?
As an Engineer in GMST you will be building core features and functions of card transaction systems on distributed platform deployed in the cloud. Actively participating in agile teams and the latest development practices, writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation. GMST Engineers use Java Technologies to drive innovation while also finding opportunities for adopting new technologies.
 
Minimum Qualifications
  • Degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field.
  • Minimum 3 years of software development experience in a professional environment working with Java technologies - Vertx, Spring, Spring Boot, RESTful micro services, Ignite, In-Memory Computing, Spark, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kafka, Yellowbrick (Apache Ignite is a plus) and RESTful API’s.
  • Hands-on experience with application design, software development and automated testing
  • Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, relational or NoSQL databases.
  • Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and eloquent solutions.
  • Ability to learn and investigate new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
  • Ability to debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation.
  • Experience working in Agile or other rapid application development methods.
  • Proficient oral and written communication skills.

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