Senior Backend Software Engineer - Global Commercial Services Technology
American ExpressAbout the role
Global Commercial Services (GCS) serves millions of business customers around the world, from mom-and-pop shops to Fortune 500 companies. We back businesses so they can do more business, with a mission to be the undisputed leader in financial and membership services - responsibly driving double-digit revenue growth. We do that by offering a diverse range of payment and cashflow tools, from a wide range of traditional card products, to working capital and supply chain financing, to new digital solutions that make it easy for our customers to manage a full range of their financial and payment needs.
The Global Commercial Services team at American Express is seeking a Senior Software Engineer I with deep expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, and cloud-native development. This role will be instrumental in building scalable platform services that power a next-generation expense management solution for Small and Medium-sized (SMS) businesses and Corporate customers.
Design, develop, and deploy scalable backend services and APIs using Golang in AWS environments.
Build microservices leveraging domain-driven design and modern architectural patterns such as hexagonal architecture.
Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to define service contracts and platform capabilities.
Mentor engineers and foster strong collaboration across distributed engineering teams.
Evaluate and integrate SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements.
Participate in architecture reviews, RFCs, and proof-of-concept initiatives.
Develop highly scalable, resilient, and observable distributed systems.
Design and implement event-driven architectures and streaming solutions using Kafka and related messaging technologies.
Integrate with workflow orchestration and durable execution frameworks such as Camunda and Temporal.
Design and manage data systems across relational, graph, document, search, and OLAP databases.
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