Job Description

About Delta Air Lines

What started as a humble, little aerial crop-dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters in 1924, has now grown into one of the worlds largest global airlines, helping more than 200 million travelers connect to the world each year. Today, Delta Air Lines is the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability and customer experience. Learn more about Delta here. The Delta Technology Hub (DTH) is one of Delta Air Lines investments in world-class IT core capabilities and technology to transform how we operate and provide world class travel experiences for our customers through innovation and cutting-edge methodologies. As we expand, we look forward to welcoming new employees aboard. Join the DTH and keep climbing with us.



Senior Software Development Engineers build code by using core agile practices such as "keep it simple," test-driven development (TDD), continuous integration, polyglot programming, and microservice design. A SDE focuses on developing and implementing modernized specialized business applications, deploying to development, test, staging, and production.

The Senior Software Development Engineer, backend shall have experience in developing and modifying applications. They have accountability for technology deliverables, developing detailed design documentation and programming. They have knowledge of API Development and Layered Architecture principles. They possess strong oral and written communications skills in order to clearly and effectively convey ideas, reports, issues, and other deliverables.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Designing, prototyping, and demonstrating new features and components of front-end and back-end to users to ensure compliance with requirements.
• Assisting in the design, implementation and optimization of related approaches, tools and workflows.
• Collaborate with the technical teams, business teams, and product managers to ensure that the code that is developed meets their vision.
• Design solutions to meet functional and technical requirements.
• Align to Security/Compliance frameworks and controls requirements.
• Own quality posture. Write automated tests, ideally before writing code.
• Write code.
• Develop delivery pipelines and automated deployment scripts.
• Configure services, such as databases and monitoring.
• Implement Service Reliability Engineering.
• Fix problems from the development phase through the production phase, which requires being on call for production support.

• Experience engineering software within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure CDK / Lambda / Step Functions / API Gateway
• 3-6 years of J2EE development experience
• Experience in J2EE with WebSphere Application Server 9.x or JBOSS/OpenShift
• Microservices/APIs and/or Web Services using:Swagger, JSON, XML (for Legacy Services) and Postman/SOAPUI
• Solid Experience with Frameworks:Spring Frameworks (Boot, Rest, Security, Batch, JMS) or Other Frameworks (Gradle, MyBatis, SLF4J)
• Developer Testing Experience: TDD (Test Driven Development) using Assertion Libraries (chai, Junit), Jasmine, Cucumber or Test Management Tools (Jira/Zephyr)
• Solid Database Experience: SQL development Skills (must have), PL/SQL programming experience, Oracle 18c or TOAD
• CyberSecurity Experience: Implementation oAUTH2 and/or JWT and Concepts (PCI, PII, Privacy Design)
• Solid grasp of Agile Methodologies.
• Demonstrable experience with DevOps principles, practices and tools.
• Experience engineering software within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure or other prominent enterprise cloud provider.
• Understanding of the full Software Development Lifecycle, building CI/CD pipelines and practicing Test Driven Development is a requirement.
• Fundamental Awareness of Application Security principles and 12-factor application development principles is required.
• Experience with source control, build tools and GIT (GitHub, Bitbucket or other) is required.
• Embraces a diverse set of people, thinking and styles.
• Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority.
• High School diploma, GED or High School Equivalency.
• 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 in Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field.
• Experience with version control software (GitLab)
• Asynchronous communication with IBM MQ
• Complex programming, program debugging, data analysis, problem analysis and resolution issues within OO application systems.
• Communication skills to present ideas and concepts effectively; strong and proven problem solving.
• Experience with working in an Agile (Digital.AI/VersionOne) environment utilizing DevOps pipelines using Jenkins
• Self starter, highly motivated individual, and a team player who adapts to a dynamic work environment.
• MSOffice
• MSVisio.
• Experience working in an airline technology environment.

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