Golang Developer

Position:  Golang Developer

Location: Phoenix, AZ (Hybrid)

Duration: 12 months+ Contract

Description:

Seeking a Golang Developer with 5 years of Golang Development experience.

This role is for a specialized group within the American Express Engineering Team.

We work with the below technologies daily.

• Go (Golang) and Java are the languages that power our platform.
• Must have experience with Golang.

Platform:

Our services run within Docker containers and primarily run on Kubernetes clusters.

We monitor our systems using technologies like Prometheus, Elastic, Kibana, Grafana, Jaeger We use HTTP/2 REST, gRPC, and Kafka. We manage configuration and secrets using open-source tools such as Consul & Vault We use Modern datastores like Redis, Couchbase, Cassandra & PostgreSQL

Responsibilities:

• As an Engineer, you will be responsible to build core features and functions of card transaction systems on distributed platform.
• Deploy using a hybrid cloud.
• Write code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation.
• Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies
• Work along with stakeholders to understand and analyze the requirements.
• Collaborate with peer technology and development teams across different locations.

Technologies: 

• Golang
• Kafka 
• CI/CD
• Cucumber 
• Docker 
• Git (edited)  
• Linux 
• NoSQL 
• Cassandra (nice to have) 
• Redis (nice to have) 
• Postman
• Splunk