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

Delta IT is on a journey of transformation. We are changing the way we do business from top to bottom. As thought-leaders within Delta, we strive to create meaningful and innovative solutions and are looking for team members to help us realize our vision.

Delta IT employees are thinkers, doers, innovators.

We are proactive.

We are collaborative.

We deliver impact to our customers.

Join us on our transformation journey in becoming a world-class IT organization at the world's best airline!

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 designing and implementing modernized specialized business applications, deploying to development, test, staging, and production.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Designing, prototyping and demonstrating new featuresand components of front-end and back-end to users to ensure compliancewith requirements

• Assisting in the design, implementation andoptimization 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 theirvision

• Develop solutions to meet functional and technicalrequirements

• Own quality posture; write automated tests ideallybefore writing code

• Write code

• Align to Security/Compliance frameworks and controlsrequirements

• Develop delivery pipelines and automated deploymentscripts

• Implement Service Reliability Engineering

• Fix problems from the development phase through theproduction phase, which requires being on call for production support

What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, with 5+ years of relevant technical experience or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems with 2+ years of technical experience.

• Experience in business analytics and/or product development and KPIs

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience as a Software Engineer developing in Java and AWS technologies

• Experience with Agile Methodologies

• Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and web service development standards and practices, including RESTful APIs and microservices

• Cloud-native development and strong working knowledge of developing and deploying applications in major cloud providers (AWS or Azure)

• Experience in cloud managed services and DB (RDS, NoSQL/DynamoDB, serverless, etc.)

• Considering Observability, Monitoring, Logging, and Tracing as part of development leveraging managed services like AWS cloud watch and Dynatrace etc.

• Experience with system integrations, optimizing performance and data integrity

• Understanding of DevOps principles, practices, and tools in an enterprise technology environment

• Solid grasp of the full Software Development Lifecycle, building CI/CD pipelines and practicing Test Driven Development

• Fundamental Awareness of Application Security principles and 12-factor application development principles

• Experience with source control, build tools and GIT (GitHub, Bitbucket or other)

• Passion for driving continuous improvement

What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications)

• Airline industry experience is good to have

• Experience with AWS services including ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, SQS/SNS and setting up DevOps pipelines with GitLab CI, Tekton/Code Build

• AWS Certification is a plus

Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing

Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience, Servant Leadership, and Teamwork – every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way:

• Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives

• 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%

• Paid time off including vacation, holidays, paid personal time, maternity and parental leave

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life benefits

• Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages

• Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health

• Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members

• Career development programs to achieve your long-term career goals

• World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint

• Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies

• Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together

• Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare

Pay Range: $68100.00-$183700.00 annually

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