Senior Engineer I

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and through their work can make an impact on our industry. Were here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.

What Youll Do

Technical Leadership:

Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers in delivering high-quality software solutions

Define technical architecture and design patterns for the GBT mid and back office systems

Drive technical decision-making and establish development best practices

Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and quality guidelines

Collaborate with product managers architects and stakeholders on technical roadmap planning

Hands-on Development:

Design and develop complex backend services and APIs using Java and Spring Boot

Architect and implement scalable microservices solutions for travel booking and operational workflows

Optimize PostgreSQL database performance and design efficient data models

Deploy and manage applications on AWS ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS) platform

Manage EC2 instances and implement cloud-native solutions

Provide expert-level application support and resolve complex production issues

Team & Process Management:

Lead sprint planning technical grooming and delivery estimation

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.

What Were Looking For

Minimum 10 years of professional Java development experience with 3 years in technical leadership roles

Expert-level proficiency in Java 8 and advanced programming concepts

Deep expertise in Spring Boot Spring Framework and enterprise Java patterns

Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL including performance tuning query optimization and database design

Extensive experience with AWS cloud services particularly ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS) and EC2

Proven experience in designing and implementing microservices architecture at scale

Experience leading development teams and mentoring junior developers

Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging systems (Kafka RabbitMQ)

Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana ELK stack)

Experience with DevOps practices CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code

Technical Environment:

Java 11 Spring Boot Spring Security Spring Data JPA

PostgreSQL Redis RESTful APIs GraphQL

AWS ROSA EC2 Docker Kubernetes/OpenShift

Jenkins GitLab CI/CD Maven/Gradle

Location

The #TeamGBT Experience

Work and life: Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.

• Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans retirement programs parental leave adoption assistance and wellbeing resources to support you and your immediate family.

• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.

• Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you with access to over 20000 courses on our learning platform leadership courses and new job openings available to internal candidates first.

• We strive to champion Inclusion in every aspect of our business at Amex GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global INclusion Groups centered around common identities or initiatives to discuss challenges obstacles achievements and drive company awareness and action.

• And much more!

All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age sex gender (and characteristics related to sex and gender) pregnancy (and related medical conditions) race color citizenship religion disability or any other class or characteristic protected by law.

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What if I dont meet every requirement If youre passionate about our mission and believe youd be a phenomenal addition to our team dont worry about checking every box; please apply anyway. You may be exactly the person were looking for!