Senior Android Engineer

American Express
UK
15 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Software Quality Github Gradle Mobile Application Software Software Engineering Systems Integration Circleci Data Logging Backend Integration Tests Information Technology Jetpack Compose
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Build Tools Restful APIs

Job description

American Express entered the travel agency business in 1915, and today is one of the world’s largest luxury travel and lifestyle service networks. The Travel & Lifestyle Services (TLS) business provides exclusive access, differentiated value, extraordinary service, and unrivalled expertise to Card Members seeking leisure or business travel, as well as a variety of lifestyle services. The Global Digital Customer Experience is a strategic focus area for growth within Travel and Lifestyle Services and there is significant continuing investment to transform and optimize our digital proposition and capabilities. American Express Travel Online not only drives direct revenue and cost savings but also plays an important role in overall Card product engagement, loyalty and satisfaction., * Writes and delivery high quality code

  • Leads review of colleague’s work
  • Builds monitoring dashboards and logging & alerting strategies.
  • Monitors system performance and availability and improves software quality through root cause analysis.
  • Deep understanding of infrastructure technologies and components
  • Has deep understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analysing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)

Leadership

  • Prepares and presents solutions and progress updates to product and technology leadership
  • Collaborates and communicates effectively across engineering and enterprise teams.
  • Mentors and coaches junior team members
  • Influences team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking.
  • Demonstrates increased self-reliance to achieve team goals., * REST APIs
  • OkHttp
  • RAML API Documentation
  • Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow
  • RxJava
  • GitHub Actions
  • Circle CI
  • Test Fakes
  • WireMock

Requirements

We are looking for a highly motivated, independent, and skilled engineer to architect, design and build the Android travel mobile app., * Writing & Deleting code

  • Build tools like Gradle, GitHub Actions, and Circle CI
  • Finding and fixing bugs
  • Performance Analysis and Optimization
  • Dealing with legacy code
  • Unit & Integration Tests
  • Working in a globally distributed team
  • Self-starting and good at time management
  • Integrating with bespoke lovingly hand-crafted backend services from the days of yore.
  • Designing solutions for open ended problems
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

Benefits & conditions

  • Amex Flex (Hybrid Work Model) - providing greater flexibility to colleagues
  • Retirement Savings Plan
  • Parental Leave & Nursing Mothers Rooms
  • Backup and In-home Child and Elder Care
  • 24/7 Mental Health Counselling
  • Wellness Centers & Health Living programs
  • Paid Time Off
  • 100% Global Pay Equity
  • Career, Training and Learning - American Express Leadership Program, LinkedIn Learning, American Express & Harvard Leadership Program
  • Exclusive Deals and Discounts

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