Senior Software Development Engineer, API

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.

• Design and develop business, application, data, and infrastructure solutions, seek 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 the 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.
• This role may be located in Atlanta, GA or Minneapolis, MN

• Minimum 7-10 years of Software Development experience in Java
• 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 etc.
• 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 etc.
• 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. Assures smooth flowing, timely transmission of critical information.
• Excellent judgment and problem-solving skills; individual should be 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.
• Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered for U.S.-based job, if not currently employed by Delta Air Lines, Inc.

• Bachelors degree, or equivalent work experience.
• Airline industry experience preferred.