Sr Engineer 1

American Express Global Business Travel
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As a Lead Engineer, you'll lead a team of engineers while designing, building, and scaling the core travel mid and back-office systems that power billing, invoicing, and reconciliation for a global travel business. We're looking for someone innovative, who combines strong hands-on engineering with the ability to lead a team and see the bigger picture.

What You'll Do

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, setting technical direction and reviewing code and design
  • Design, code, and implement backend solutions from concept to final hand-off, using Java and Spring Boot for high-volume billing and reconciliation workflows
  • Build and maintain front-end interfaces and internal tools using React JS
  • Architect and deploy cloud-native services on AWS and Kubernetes
  • Estimate technical effort, work breakdown structure, risks, and dependencies for your team's roadmap
  • Analyze and resolve complex technical and production issues across the platform
  • Establish and promote engineering design guidelines, coding standards, and best practices
  • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other partners, including code and design reviews
  • Experiment with new and emerging technologies, including applying AI to improve automation, data processing, and engineering productivity

What We're Looking For

  • ·Minimum 10 years of professional IT experience with 5+ years of relevant experience in Java - OOPs, Design patterns, Collections, Streams, and Multithreading.
  • Must have 7+ years of hands-on experience in architecture and design of distributed applications.
  • Must be willing and able to work in 2nd shifts (3:00 PM IST to 12:00 AM IST) and occasional weekends as required.
  • Must be willing to work from Bangalore office location minimum 3 days in a week.
  • Should have solid experience in delivering projects using agile methodology, be a strong believer in adding incremental value to business in short sprints.
  • Should have strong experience in leading a team of contractors, offshore teams, and employees to deliver the technical solutions collaborating with business partners.
  • Should have strong experience in managing and leading product or platform production support teams ensuring quality and adherence to technical, security, and compliance standards.
  • Proficient in ReactJS – including hooks, components, and state management libraries like Redux.
  • Experience with React libraries and frameworks such as React Router, React Bootstrap.
  • Proficiency in working with any Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) – Writing complex queries, PL/SQL, Stored Procedures, Functions
  • Experience in creating REST API specification documents using OpenAPI.
  • Proficient in Rest API, Spring boot
  • Good knowledge of Microservice Architecture

Location

Bangalore, India

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