Senior Software Development Engineer, Revenue Technology

Delta Air Lines - Atlanta, GA

Full-time - Senior

Atlanta, GA

Air Transportation

About the position

Delta IT is on a transformative journey, aiming to revolutionize its business operations from top to bottom. As thought-leaders within Delta, we are committed to creating meaningful and innovative solutions, and we are looking for team members who can help us realize this vision. Delta IT employees are thinkers, doers, and innovators who are proactive and collaborative, delivering impactful results to our customers. We invite you to join us on our journey to become a world-class IT organization at the world's best airline. Our Revenue Technology and Analytics Team is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer who will take ownership of a complex set of systems, including mainframe, enterprise services/APIs, and databases that utilize various communication protocols for modifying travel-related documents. These documents are managed by our financial and revenue accounting tech teams to facilitate customer transactions throughout their travel experience with Delta. In this role, you will design and develop business, application, data, and infrastructure solutions, seeking opportunities to optimize performance while maintaining and troubleshooting application components as required in the cloud. You will play an active role in architecture and be a key voice in technical initiatives and projects that require the integration of cross-functional systems. Your work will involve designing and developing with a focus on Non-Functional Requirements such as Scalability, Reliability, Availability, Observability, Fault Tolerance, Security, and Maintainability. You will also create system documentation and serve as a technical reviewer and contributor in requirements, design, and code reviews. Additionally, you will develop test case designs, execute test cases, and collaborate with product teams to resolve identified issues, all while maintaining a continuous improvement mindset across all areas of development and deployment. You will contribute to the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process and write well-designed, non-complex, testable, and efficient code. Collaboration with developers across multiple products will be essential to build consensus on the creation of reusable application components, and you will also provide support to other team members as needed, including troubleshooting and maintenance of production systems, programs, and applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop business, application, data, and infrastructure solutions, seeking opportunities to optimize performance.
• Maintain and troubleshoot application components as required in the cloud.
• Play an active role in the architecture and be a key voice in technical initiatives and projects requiring integration of cross-functional systems.
• Design and develop with consideration for Non-Functional Requirements (Scalability, Reliability, Availability, Observability, Fault Tolerance, Security, and Maintainability).
• Create system documentation/playbook(s) and serve as technical reviewer and contributor in requirements, design, and code review.
• Develop test case design, perform test case execution, and work with product teams to resolve identified issues.
• Have a continuous improvement mindset on all areas of development and deployment.
• Use and contribute to the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process.
• Write well designed, non-complex, testable, efficient code.
• Collaborate with developers across multiple products to build consensus on creation of reusable application components.
• Aid and cover for other team members where required, including troubleshooting and maintenance of production systems/programs/applications.

Requirements

• Minimum 7-10 years of Software Development experience in Java.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, with 8+ years of relevant technical experience.
• Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and web service development standards and practices, including RESTful APIs, microservices, and SOA services.
• Expert in Functional Programming approaches, preferably in Java.
• Experience working with containers, and managed container orchestrators (Kubernetes/OpenShift) in the cloud (For example AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShift).
• Experience with microservices management like istio.
• Knowledge of Authentication and Authorization protocols like oAuth2.0 and openID Connect.
• Cloud-native development in the Spring/Spring Boot ecosystem 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.).
• DevSecOps and/or automation experience in code testing, building, and deployment using tools like VeraCode, SonarQube, Tekton (preferred) or Jenkins, GitHub and/or GitLab.
• Have implemented code coverage, code complexity, code quality.
• Considering Observability, Monitoring, Logging, and Tracing as part of development leveraging managed services like AWS cloud watch, jaegar, kiali and Dynatrace.
• Experience with Test Driven Development, exposure to Behavior Driven Development.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience working in an agile development environment using workload management tools like VersionOne.
• Experience with system integrations, optimizing performance and data integrity.
• Passion for driving continuous improvement.
• Proactive and able to quickly pick up new technologies.
• Strong technical and non-technical communication skills.
• Excellent judgment and problem-solving skills; able to resolve problems in a calm and quick manner and display a high degree of initiative and drive.
• Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles.
• Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems with 2+ years of technical experience.
• AWS Certification is a plus.
• DevOps and/or automation experience in code testing, building, and deployment a plus.
• Experience building computer software within the airline industry is a plus.
• Knowledge of Linux operating systems a plus.

Benefits

• 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.