Sr. Engineer

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you'll travel the world, grow your expertise, and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you'll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board.

Responsibilities:

• As one diverse, high-performing team dedicated to technical excellence, you will focus relentlessly on delivering unrivalled digital products that drive a more reliable and profitable airline.
• The software domain refers to the area within information technology that focuses on the development, deployment, management, and maintenance of software applications that support business processes and user needs.
• This includes development, application lifecycle management, requirement analysis, QA, security and compliance, and maintaining the applications and infrastructure.
• This list is intended to reflect the current job, but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks to be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations, including any collective bargaining obligations.
• Writes, tests, and documents technical work products (e. g., code, scripts, and processes) according to organisational standards and practices.
• Devotes time to raising the quality and craftsmanship of products and systems.
• Conducts root cause analysis to identify domain-level problems and prescribes action items to mitigate them.
• Designs self-contained systems within a team's domain and leads implementations of significant capabilities in existing systems.
• Coaches team members in the execution of techniques to improve reliability, resiliency, security, and performance.
• Decomposes intricate and interconnected designs into implementations that can be effectively built and maintained by less experienced engineers.
• Anticipates trouble areas in systems under development and guides the team in instrumentation practices to ensure observability and supportability.
• Defines test suites and instrumentation that ensure targets for latency and availability are being consistently met in production.
• Leads through example by prioritising the closure of open vulnerabilities.
• Evaluates potential attack surfaces in systems under development, identifies best practices to mitigate, and guides teams in their implementation.
• Leads the team in identifying small batches of work to deliver the highest value quickly.
• Ensures reuse is a first-class consideration in all team implementations and is a passionate advocate for broad reusability.
• Formally mentors teammates and guides them on and through needed learning journeys.
• Observes their environment and identifies opportunities for introducing new approaches to problems.

The core requirements for the job include the following:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training.
• 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and implementing large-scale solutions in production environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training.
• Airline industry experience.

Proficiency with the following technologies:

• Programming Languages: C#, . NET.
• Frameworks: . NET Framework.
• Front End Technologies: Angular/React.
• Deployment Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker.
• Source Control: GitHub, Azure DevOps.
• CICD: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps.
• Data management: SQL.
• Integration/API Technologies: Kafka, REST, and GraphQL.
• Cloud providers such as Azure and AWS.
• Ability to optimise solutions for performance, resiliency and reliability while maintaining an eye toward simplicity.
• Ability to concisely convey ideas verbally, in writing, in code, and in diagrams.
• Proficiency in object-oriented design techniques and principles.
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies, such as SCRUM.
• Proficiency in DevOps toolchain methodologies, including continuous integration and continuous deployment.

Language/Communication skills:

• Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing with all levels within the organisation.
• Physical ability necessary to safely and successfully perform the essential functions of the position, with or without any legally required reasonable accommodations that do not pose an undue hardship.

Skills

.NET, AWS, Angular, AngularJS, Azure, C#, Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, React, React.js