Engineer​/Sr Engineer, IT Software

Introduction

Intro Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life.

Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

Why you’ll love this job

• As one diverse, high-performing team dedicated to technical excellence, you will focus relentlessly on delivering unrivaled digital products that drive a more reliable and profitable airline.
• The Software domain refers to the area within Information Technology that focuses on the development, deployment, management, and maintenance of software applications that support business processes and user needs. This includes development, application lifecycle management, requirement analysis, QA, security & compliance, and maintaining the applications and infrastructure.

As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.

• Write, test, and document code, scripts, and processes following organizational standards
• Solve technical problems and build impactful components/libraries
• Deliver high-quality work and mentor junior engineers in technical skills
• Conduct root cause analysis to address systemic issues and lead action plans
• Design integrated systems that enable cross-functional teams to deliver value at scale, speed, and reliability
• Manage technical debt and drive initiatives to eliminate it
• Anticipate scaling, latency, and durability challenges, guiding teams in mitigation
• Collaborate with security teams to implement secure practices early in development
• Assess technical risks and implement prevention strategies
• Evaluate squad delivery practices, recommend improvements, and drive change
• Identify and eliminate duplication of effort, promoting reuse across teams
• Measure team performance and support individual development
• Explore emerging technologies, lead prototype development, and incorporate into architectural solutions

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 3 years of experience designing, developing, and implementing large-scale solutions in production environments

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• Airline Industry experience

• Proficiency with the following technologies:
  • Programming
    
    Languages:
    
    Java, Python, C#, Java script/Typescript
  • Frameworks:
    Spring/Spring Boot, FastAPI
  • Front End Technologies:
    Angular/React
  • Deployment Technologies:
    Kubernetes, Docker
  • Source Control:
    Git Hub, Azure Dev Ops
  • CICD:
    Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops
  • Data management:
    Postgre
    
    SQL, Mongo
    
    DB, Redis
  • Integration/APIs Technologies:
    Kafka, REST, GraphQL
  • Cloud Providers such as Azure and AWS
  • Test Automation:
    Selenium, TestNG, Postman, Sonar Qube, Cypress, JUnit/NUnit/PyTest, Cucumber, Playwright, Wiremock/Mockito/Moq
  • * Ability to optimize solutions for performance, resiliency and reliability while maintaining an eye toward simplicity
• Ability to concisely convey ideas verbally, in writing, in code, and in diagrams
• Ability to optimize system designs spanning multiple teams to allow small, safe, incremental releases
• Ability to work through others by cooperatively sharing responsibilities
• Ability to combine deep knowledge of a product domain with awareness of advancing technology to…