Full Stack Engineer

American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) equips companies of all sizes with the insights, tools, services and expertise they need to keep their travelers informed, focused and productive while on the road. With approximately 14,000 employees and operations in nearly 140 countries worldwide, American Express GBT empowers customers to take control of their travel programs, optimizing the return on their travel and meetings investments, while, more importantly, providing extraordinary traveler care.

We’re moving faster than ever and introducing new products, services, and strategies that will revolutionize the travel industry and bring greater value to our business customers. Our clients’ success expands our success, so we put our heart and soul into helping our clients achieve results that exceed all expectations. As the world’s largest travel management company, we are continuing to build alliances with key travel leaders and suppliers throughout the world, strengthening our position as a quality provider to companies of all sizes.

We are committed to ensuring that our global workforce experiences a culture of belonging that leverages the diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives of our colleagues, clients, partners and communities, to foster a high performing multicultural and inclusive organization. We believe that a culture where everyone feels engaged, has a voice, and is empowered to achieve their full potential, is core to our purpose and success.

Get ready to take your career to new heights.

Job Title: Global Trip Record – Full Stack Engineer

We deliver innovative travel products and services at a rapid pace, seamlessly serving our customers in 140+ countries across physical, digital, mobile, and social media. This position is to conduct development on Global Trip Record (GTR) – one of the cornerstone technical platforms within the American Express Global Business Travel. Join us to take the business traveler experience to a new level!

GTR is all about your trip. GTR is a global platform that collects, enriches and distributes trip data to various vendors such as duty of care providers and to the customers themselves. GTR serves as the core for business travel and provides our clients with an integrated and holistic view of their trip, synthesizing all aspects of travel from multiple Global Distribution Systems (GDS) as well as non-GDS sources, traveler profiles, airline, rail, and hotel industry reference data, and dynamic data sources such as real-time flight schedules. We are actively adding data sources to continue improving the business traveler experience and empowering travel program analytics for optimal decision making.

Responsibilities

• Design, Code and implement solutions from concept to final hand-off to customers
• Estimate technical effort, work breakdown structure, risks and dependencies
• Optimize APIs for maximum performance, reliability and scalability
• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems
• Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards
• Contribute to and work with fellow engineers, designers and other partners to develop and maintain application
• Collaborate with other engineers, participate in code review, contribute in design review
• Experiment with new and emerging technologies

Technical Skills

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• 2+ years in depth experience in Java/J2EE, Java8+, React JS, Node JS, multithreading, Spring Boot, Micro services, JPA, JUnit, Mocking Frameworks, TDD
• Strong experience in designing, building and maintaining RESTful APIs
• Strong experience in microservices framework
• Strong experience in data structures, algorithms and design patterns
• Experience in ReactJS and the ecosystem around it, debugging, building and manipulating DOM’s (desired)
• Experience with throughput batch processing and/or streaming systems (Kafka, Spark)
• Experience in SQL (MS SQL, Postgress) databases and No-SQL (Cassandra)
• Experience in Cloud technologies like Containers, Kubernetes, Docker
• Experience in continuous integration, deployment, production monitoring, and zero downtime systems
• Experience in AWS is a plus
• Knowledge in Travel industry is a plus
• Team player with a curious mindset willing to take on new challenges
• Fluent in English

Location: India – Virtual Location

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