Senior Software Development Engineer

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. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.

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Position Overview:

As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Client Business Intelligence team, you'll build products that enable our customers to get insights into their travel data in a timely manner. You are responsible for high-level design, with experience in Spring Boot, React and distributed systems. In this critical role, you will represent our clients in cross-team solution design discussions on future direction and help shape the future of client BI in business travel.

What You’ll do on a Typical Day :-

• Analyze requirements and collaborate with Product and Engineering on decisions.
• Translate functional specifications into logical, component-based technical designs.
• Lead end-to-end product life cycle for mid to large-size projects: Design, development, testing, deployment, and provide operational excellence and support.
• Take ownership of reusable components and drive from design through implementation to release.
• Write well-designed, efficient, and maintainable code, and review, test, and debug team members’ code.
• Find creative, tractable new ways to improve coding standards across the team and broader org.
• Advocate for best practices, excellent usability, and exceptional quality.
• Help other developers take advantage of new technologies.
• Work closely with geographically distributed teams and collaborate with cross team leads to define, implement, and consume services/components/modules.
• Contribute to advancing the team's design methodology and quality programming practices and mentor junior team members to adopt best practices.
• Anticipate and prevent problems and roadblocks, before they occur, and present technical issues and their impact on leadership
• Contribute to the production duties for the services owned by your team: Monitoring, Release Management, On Call.

What We’re looking for :-

• B.Tech/BE/M.Tech/MCA or equivalent degree with at least 10+ years of relevant work experience.
• Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming, DesignPatterns, Data Structures, and Algorithms.
• Experience in full stack software development including Java and RESTful.
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases and cloud computing concepts.
• Experience in developing and deploying in AWS cloud-based platforms. Hands on experience on EKS, Lambdas, DynamoDB,S3.
• Experience in UX technologies and frameworks like JavaScript, React,and HTML5. 
• Strong experience with Java, XML, JSON, Junit.
• Sound understanding of client-side optimization standard methodologies and tools.
• Experience with maintaining cross-browser compatibility and debugging.
• Good time management skills.
• Strong problem-solving and logical skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Self -starter, who can quickly understand the eco system with little ramp up & kick start development.
• Must thrive in a fast-paced, agile/SCRUM work environment.
• Relevant industry experience developing in Java and its associated technology stacks. Experience building web services with these platforms desired.

Nice to have:

• Experience working with data is a plus since the team's primary charter is to present our clients' travel data to them in an insightful manner, and you will use analysis of the data to drive solution design.

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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 more.

• 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 global tuition assistance, access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.

• We strive to champion Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in every aspect of our business at 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.

• Wellbeing resources to support mental and emotional health for you and your immediate family.

• And much more!

This role is for Egencia LLC (“Egencia” or the “Company”), a member of the American Express Global Business Travel family of companies.

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.

Furthermore, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the hiring process. For details regarding how we protect your data, please consult GBT Recruitment Privacy Statement.

What if I don’t meet every requirement? If you’re passionate about our mission and believe you’d be a phenomenal addition to our team, don’t worry about “checking every box;" please apply anyway. You may be exactly the person we’re looking for!