Software Development Engineer [T500-19161]

About Delta Tech Hub:

Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) is the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability and customer experience. Powered by our employees around the world, Delta has for a decade led the airline industry in operational excellence while maintaining our reputation for award-winning customer service. With our mission of connecting the people and cultures of the globe, Delta strives to foster understanding across a diverse world and serve as a force for social good. Delta has fast emerged as a customer-oriented, innovation-led, technology-driven business. The Delta Technology Hub will contribute directly to these objectives. It will sustain our long-term aspirations of delivering niche, IP-intensive, high-value, and innovative solutions. It supports various teams and functions across Delta and is an integral part of our transformation agenda, working seamlessly with a global team to create memorable experiences for customers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with product team members (UX, architects, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions.
• Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, test cases, to do “destructive testing” to ensure adequate resiliency in production
• AWS experience with background in API, Microservices development.
• Identifies unsecured code areas and implements fixes as they are discovered with or without tooling.
• Identifies, implements, and shares technical solutions that can be used across the portfolio
• Identifies product enhancements to create a better experience for the end users
• Research and/or investigate technical issues impacting the organization and recommend solutions
• Provides application support for software running in production
• Proactively reviews the Performance and Capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processing
• Triages high priority issues and outages as they arise
• Participates in learning activities around agile software development and development core practices, and mentors other team members in these best practices

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS):

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field is required
• Experienced in full stack Cloud-native development, RESTful APIs, and stateless microservices architectures
• At least 3 years of experience with Java 8 / J2EE and the Spring framework
• Experience in designing and implementing RESTful services using XML / JSON
• Experience creating web-based application UIs using Angular, Bootstrap, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and related tools.
• AWS experience with background in API, Microservices development.
• Experience with the core AWS services like Lambdas, S3, SQS, SNS, EC2, Code Pipeline, Athena, DynamoDB, RDS.Strong understanding of core AWS services and apply best practices regarding security and scalability.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and virtual networks from a cloud point of view
• Knowledge and / or experience in working with 12-factor methodology and understanding its benefits, and able to demonstrate appropriate patterns to other team members
• Experience deploying applications in OpenShift/ROSA (or other Docker / Kubernetes container)
• Able to independently create and maintain automation test jobs and execute as part of a CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience of working in distributed agile teams using agile frameworks such as SCRUM , SAFe, XP etc.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices; with tools such as Git / Gitlab, Jira / VersionOne / Agility, Jenkins / Tekton, Gradle, Ansible
• Knowledge and / or experience with messaging solutions such as ActiveMQ or Kafka.
• Ability to clearly communicate and coordinate with peers, product owners, and cross functional teams and design a relevant and time to market solution.
• Must have the ability to listen to customers and colleagues; convey ideas effectively; prepare written documentation
• Ability to quickly adapt to new tools and evolving technologies.
• Proactive in nature with customer satisfaction as a primary goal
• Embraces Diverse people, thinking and styles
• Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority
• Design Thinking
• Ensure code quality and documentation for supporting application post deployment.

WHAT WILL GIVE YOU A COMPETITIVE EDGE (PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS):

• Experience with Check in or Web Portal applications.
• Airline, or Transportation industry experience.