Senior Back-end Java Developer Job Calgary area,Alberta Canada,Software Development

Overview of role:

West Jet is seeking a senior back-end Software Developer reporting to our Digital Technology office. This individual can demonstrate a high standard of excellence, enjoy challenges, and drive results. The incumbent must be highly motivated and demonstrate the ability to work in an agile environment.

This new member will provide technical expertise and will support/ lead the development team in creating high-quality software solutions by designing and developing web-based Java applications and lead the development team and business stakeholders to develop appropriate object-oriented software systems that meet West Jet’s business, technical and quality requirements. Moreover, the senior software developer will embrace coaching and mentoring colleagues.

Key deliverables include:

Provide technical expertise for West Jet’s product features and environments
Actively participate and provide technical expertise for the creation, implementation and ongoing evolution of West Jet’s design and development methodologies, coding standards and style guidelines
Actively participate and provide technical expertise for the evaluation and selection of new software development tools and frameworks
Actively participate and share technical expertise through workshops, presentations, and training that provide skill and knowledge development for the entire team
Provide technical expertise and coaching to developers and external consultants
Plan, lead and track the technical aspects of software development sustainment streams and capital projects
Lead the development team in working with business stakeholders to define and prepare functional and design specifications of new features/products
Provide accurate estimates for development effort, complexity and risk for software development sustainment streams and capital projects
Design and develop automated unit and integration tests for front end code that define and validate feature/product requirements
Design and develop robust, extensible, high-quality code that meet business, technical and quality requirements
Lead the development team in working with quality assurance partners to assess the impact of code changes, to ensure the validation of requirements and to provide timely troubleshooting and fixes to software defects
Lead the development team in working with operational partners to ensure the supportability of new features/products and to provide timely technical support and fixes to production applications
Provide technical expertise and approval for the review and analysis of front-end and back-end code as well as all automated tests
Provide technical expertise in how to manage code and resolve conflicts with other development initiatives
Document system components, related interfaces and ensure complete and accurate release notes

Experience and qualifications:

Recognized diploma or bachelor’s degree (Technical/Business/Science)
Minimum of 7+ years of experience on software development teams
Minimum of 2+ years in an airline industry role (Sabre, Amadeus, etc)
5+ years enterprise environment experience is an asset.
Java 21 experience, Spring Boot 3.x, microservices, Kubernetes/Open Shift/AKS, cloud-native architecture or Java 17 experience with a demonstrated ability to modernize applications.
Exposure to Java 25 and newer JVM features is an asset.

Knowledge and expertise in the following disciplines preferred:

AI development experience or open-minded to embrace
Application development using Java 17 or 21 or 25
Java frameworks such as Spring Boot
SOAP and RESTful web services using JSON and XML
Cloud environments such as Azure, AWS
Object-oriented software design, design patterns, security awareness and development best practices
Dev Ops and agile development…