Associate Engineer - Digital Technology
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 25, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 25, 2026.
Come join us to create what’s next. Let’s define tomorrow, together.
Description
Are you a Developer looking for a new technical hands-on role? Do you want to join a growing Software Development team?
Are you interested in cutting edge technologies, with the ability to collaborate with your fellow software developers?
Are you thrilled by having an opportunity to fly around the world on employee pass while working on innovative and critical software applications?
If you answered yes to any of the above, we have an exciting role for you within our Digital Technology practice to enhance and build industry-leading platforms while transforming our customer’s travel journey as a software leader. United’s Digital Technology team designs, develops, and maintains massive-scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architecture, data analytics, and digital solutions.
United Airlines is growing faster than ever, and we need talented software engineers / developers like you to fill the critical openings across our business. This is a hybrid position with ample flexibility working from home or at the office. Annual base salary/bonus incentives, along with exciting travel opportunities with free flight travel (on employee pass) benefits.
Our Values
At United Airlines, we believe that inclusion propels innovation and is the foundation of all that we do. Our Shared Purpose: "Connecting people, Uniting the world" drives us to be the best airline for our employees, customers, and everyone we serve. We can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. Our team spans the globe and is made up of diverse individuals all working together with cutting edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation.
With multiple employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities and world-class benefits like health insurance, parental leave, and unlimited space-available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work making you feel welcome, accepted, and like you truly belong. Be part of our team and help us make a positive impact on the world. Diverse candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Job overview and responsibilities
This role plays an important role in creating and maintaining software solutions supporting United's Airport Operations applications. This role is to develop, design, create and modify software applications/systems to support core business functions. This individual will apply proven technical (best practices and patterns), communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help develop/design/implement software applications/systems to maximize IT's benefit to United Airlines.
- Participate in the design, development, and planning for the software architecture for United’s technology platforms
- Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges.
- Participate in code reviews.
- Serve as an integral member of the development team to create practical solutions in Agile/DevOps environment
- Ensure consistency with an established software development architecture
- Analyze and interpret requirements from Business and UX Design Team
- Introduce new technologies and best practices as needed to solve business problems
- Help to troubleshoot, test, and maintain the quality and security of the platform
- Work in an Agile environment
- Strong team player and good communicator
This position is offered on local terms and conditions. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded. This position is for United Airlines Business Services Pvt. Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of United Airlines Inc.
Qualifications
What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):
- B.E./B.Tech. in a related technical field, or equivalent experience, education or training.
- 1- 2 Years of experience as Full Stack Developer.
- Strong foundation in programming paradigms and architectural concepts, including object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms and database systems.
- Experience in .NET, Angular and microservices architecture.
- Familiarity with AWS Services like S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Step function, ECS, EKS.
- Experience in writing quality code and on time delivery of quality components and or applications
- Experience at component and unit testing of following standard practices and methodologies
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with a strong team-player mindset.
- Good understanding of the software development lifecycle and Agile methodology.
What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):
- 12 months+ of experience developing applications in Full stack.
- 12 months+ of experience building RESTful APIS using .Net Frameworks.
- 6 months + of experience building UI components using Angular or similar type script frameworks.
- Hands-on working experience with messaging brokers.
- Familiarity with software engineering best practices that drive enterprise-wide improvement, including DevOps and Observability.
- Experience in AI tools like Copilot, Gemini or Claude Code or similar
- Experience working with Git/GitHub code repositories.