Technical Lead

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

• Develop, code, and implement solutions from concept to final hand-off to customers
• Estimate technical effort, work breakdown structure, risks, and dependencies
• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems
• Establish and promote build guidelines and standards
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and other partners, including code and build reviews
• Experiment with new and emerging technologies
• Must be willing to work from Bangalore office location minimum 3 days in a week.
  
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• Performing hands-on software design, development, and testing of APIs for GTR (Global Trip Record), utilizing Java, J2EE, and microservice in a service-oriented architecture (“SOA”) based environment using Spring Boot and Apache Kafka.
• Exploring in-depth technical and functional knowledge on data flows, data structures, data taxonomies, functional and technical dependencies of complex GTR service APIs, and their implementation, ongoing maintenance, and enhancements in the GTR platform.
• Working closely with all the collaborators and other technical teams such as GBT Mobile™ and PTC (Proactive Traveler Care™), suppliers, and vendor teams to define middleware service contracts, such as defining service request payload, HTTP method type, HTTP response code, exception handling, service time-outs, and other integration-related parameters.
• Serving as a core member of an agile team, driving user story analysis and elaboration, design, and development of software applications, testing, and building automation tools for the GTR platform.
• Performing ongoing refactoring of code and driving continuous improvement in code structure and quality.
• Writing code and API specs, conducting code reviews, testing in ongoing sprints, and creating proof of concepts/automation tools.
• Finding opportunities to adopt and apply innovative technologies to improve software development processes and drive continuous improvement within the organization.
• Offering advanced technical support for issue resolution. Collaborating with support teams to respond quickly to major incidents or production issues within the agreed SLA. Ensuring timely resolution and promoting customer happiness.
• Analyzing and optimizing the performance of GTR and its related APIs and Java applications, identifying bottlenecks, improving algorithms, and optimizing database queries to enhance overall service performance.
• Basic understanding of Prompt Engineering (clear instructions, context setting)
• Experience in using AI code assists
  
  
  

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!

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