Golang Engineer
Location: Burgess Hill, United Kingdom Employment Type: Full-time Work Model: Hybrid
About the Role
As a Golang Engineer, you will make an impact by designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, high-performance backend services that power the global Loyalty and Benefits platform at American Express — delivering meaningful experiences to millions of customers worldwide. You will be a valued member of a high-impact engineering team and work collaboratively with cross-functional engineers, architects, and stakeholders to deliver exceptional software solutions.
In this role, you will:
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality backend services and APIs using Go (Golang), building scalable and resilient components for a globally significant Loyalty and Benefits platform.
- Build and maintain event-driven systems and data pipelines using Apache Kafka, ensuring reliable and scalable message processing across distributed services.
- Work with PostgreSQL databases to design, optimise, and maintain data models and queries that support high-performance, production-grade applications.
- Containerise and orchestrate services using Docker, supporting consistent and repeatable deployment pipelines, and contribute to continuous improvement of development processes within an agile delivery environment.
- Collaborate in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and cross-team engineering discussions, upholding the highest standards of code quality, performance, and engineering best practices.
What You Need to Have to Be Considered
- Strong hands-on experience with Go (Golang) for building scalable, production-grade backend services and APIs.
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL, including database design, query optimisation, and performance tuning.
- Strong experience with Apache Kafka for building event-driven, distributed architectures and data streaming pipelines.
- Strong experience with Git-based version control tools including GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, or SVN.
- Good experience with Docker for containerisation and supporting CI/CD deployment pipelines.
- Bachelor of Science or Engineering in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
- Candidates must currently reside in the United Kingdom.
Additional eligibility requirements:
· Candidates must currently reside in the UK.
· Candidates must be available to start within 4 weeks of receiving an offer.
These Will Help You Stand Out
- Good knowledge of Java Microservices and Spring Boot, with experience building or integrating with microservices-based architectures.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a collaborative, team-oriented approach and a genuine passion for technology, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.
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