Senior Software Development Engineer

Senior Software Development Engineer in Minneapolis, Minnesota

How you'll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)

This role is located in Minneapolis, MN or Atlanta, GA (full time remote not an option).

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!

Senior Software Development Engineers build code by using core agile practices such as 'keep it simple,' test driven development (TDD), continuous integration, polyglot programming, and microservice design. A SDE focuses on developing and implementing modernized specialized business applications, deploying to development, test, staging, and production.

The Senior Software Development Engineer - TechOps will be responsible for designing, developing, documenting, testing, and debugging new and existing software within the TTS suite of applications. The Software Development Engineer must have a strong understanding of user and process requirements and the ability to ensure those requirements can be achieved through quality deliverables.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

1. Troubleshoot and resolve problems from the development phase through the production phase, which requires being on call for production support.
2. Implement best practices around Service Reliability Engineering.
3. Configure services, such as databases and monitoring.
4. Develop delivery pipelines and automated deployment scripts.
5. Develop automated test cases.
6. Own quality posture.
7. Align to Security/Compliance frameworks and controls requirements.
8. Collaborate with the technical teams, business teams, and product managers to design solutions that meet functional and technical requirements.
9. Assist in the design, implementation, and optimization of related approaches, tools, and workflows.
10. Design, prototype, and demonstrate new features and components of front-end and back-end to users to ensure compliance with requirements.

What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications)

1. Bachelor’s in Information Systems, Computer Science with 6-10 years of IT experience, or any equivalent combination of experience, education, and/or training.
2. Expertise in Java backend, frontend, node.js and related frameworks and tools, relational and noSQL DBs, Linux/Unix, Shell Scripting.
3. Expertise and experience in C++ would be a bonus.
4. Experience in web application frameworks and API technologies like JQuery, AngularJS, Swagger, JSP, Springboot.
5. Experience in Containers, Kubernetes, Docker, and frameworks like OpenShift.
6. Experience in AWS technologies including serverless.
7. Experience with EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, PostGres, RDS, VPC, Subnets, Route53, etc.
8. Experience in GIT and DevOps technologies like Tekton and AWS Code pipeline.
9. Experience with test automation and TDD.
10. Build, implement, and maintain continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) pipelines to achieve the automation of software delivery.
11. Expertise in Java backend and related frameworks and tools mainly Spring, Java 11, Quarkus.
12. Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.
13. Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
14. Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency.
15. Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.

What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications)

1. Airline Industry Experience is a plus.
2. AWS Certified developer or equivalent cloud developer certification.

Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing

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