Senior Software Development Engineer

Delta's IT department is undergoing a transformation to change the way we do business from top to bottom. We strive to build innovative solutions that deliver impact to our customers. As we grow, we seek new team members eager to collaborate and advance our mission of becoming a best-in-class IT organization at the world's premier airline!

• Designing, prototyping and demonstrating new features and components of front-end and back-end to users to ensure compliance with requirements.
• Assisting in the design, implementation and optimization of related approaches, tools and workflows.
• Collaborate with the technical teams, business teams, and product managers to ensure that the code that is developed meets their vision.
• Design solutions to meet functional and technical requirements.
• Align to Security/Compliance frameworks and controls requirements.
• Own quality posture. Write automated tests, ideally before writing code.
• Write code.
• Develop delivery pipelines and automated deployment scripts.
• Configure services, such as databases and monitoring.
• Implement Service Reliability Engineering.
• Fix problems from the development phase through the production phase, which requires being on call for production support.

• Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered for U.S.-based job, if not currently employed by Delta Air Lines, Inc.
• 5 or more years of hands-on experience as a Software Engineer or related technical engineering capacity. Relevant technologies and programming languages include:
• Solid grasp of Agile Methodologies.
• Demonstrable experience with DevOps principles, practices and tools.
• Experience engineering software within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure or other prominent enterprise cloud provider.
• Understanding of the full Software Development Lifecycle, building CI/CD pipelines and practicing Test Driven Development is a requirement.
• Fundamental Awareness of Application Security principles and 12-factor application development principles is required.
• Experience with source control, build tools and GIT (GitHub, Bitbucket or other) is required.
• Knowledge and experience with JBoss, IBM Websphere, Spring Boot, IBM MQ
• Experience deploying applications in AWS or Redhat OpenShift
• Candidate should have hands on experience of writing, maintaining automated UI and API tests written using various testing frameworks.
• Embraces a diverse set of people, thinking and styles.
• Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority.
• High School diploma, GED or High School Equivalency.

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field.
• Experience working in an airline technology environment.
• Knowledge and/or experience with messaging solutions such as ActiveMQ or Kafka
• Knowledge and experience with NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB)
• Knowledge and experience with Test Driven Development with a testing framework
• Knowledge and Experience of Caching Frameworks (JBoss Datagrid, Redis)
• Experience working with AWS cloud services ( EC2, s3, AWS code pipeline, CloudFormation, etc)
• Hands on experience of virtualizing services for test automation using tools such as Wire Mock, Mockito etc.
• Experience of non-functional testing such as performance, load, stress, security, accessibility and usability testing