Senior Engineer II

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.

What You'll Do

• Design and develop scalable full-stack applications using React (frontend) and Spring Boot (backend microservices)

• Build, optimize, and maintain PostgreSQL schemas, queries, stored procedures, and performance tuning

• Develop and manage Kafka-based event streaming pipelines for real-time data processing and inter-service communication

• Deploy, manage, and operate containerized workloads on Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA) environments

• Configure and maintain ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for centralized logging, monitoring, and observability

• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions

• Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, technical grooming, and delivery estimation

• Champion engineering best practices including CI/CD, automated testing, and secure coding standards

• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical documentation and architecture decisions

What We're Looking For

• Minimum 8 years of hands-on software engineering experience with full-stack development

• Strong proficiency in React.js including hooks, state management (Redux/Context API), and responsive UI development

• Deep expertise in Spring Boot building RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and integration patterns

• Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL data modelling, query optimization, indexing strategies, and migrations

• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka producers, consumers, topic management, and stream processing

• Experience deploying and managing applications on ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift on AWS) or equivalent Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms

• Proficiency with ELK Stack setting up indices, dashboards, log pipelines, and alerting in Kibana

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native design patterns

• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins ) and containerization (Docker)

• Proficiency in Java and JavaScript/TypeScript; familiarity with testing frameworks (JUnit, Jest, Cypress)

• Knowledge of the travel industry is a plus

Nice to Have

• AWS certifications or hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS, MSK, S3)

• Experience with Prompt Engineering and AI code assist tools

• Familiarity with GraphQL, gRPC, or service mesh technologies (Istio)

• Exposure to observability platforms beyond ELK (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger)

     

Location

Bangalore, India

     

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 wellbeing resources to support you and your immediate family.

• 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 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 Inclusion in every aspect of our business at Amex 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.

• And much more!

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.

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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!