Sr Associate Engineer, IT Software

Location
: DFW Headquarters Building 7 (DFW-SV07)
Cities
:
Fort Worth - TX
Requisition : 83368

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!

• 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.

• Writes, tests, and documents technical work products (e.g., code, scripts, processes) according to organizational standards and practices
• Consistently produces good quality technical work products that are clear, concise, tested, and easily understood by others
• Efficiently debugs design-time and run-time problems and effectively identifies problems in dependencies or caused by interactions with other services
• Designs new implementations and provides enhancements to existing architectures, maintaining reliability, resiliency, security, and performance
• Identifies and corrects issues with system components affecting operational reliability, stability and performance based on observable telemetry
• Understands and follows secure coding practices to avoid known potential vulnerabilities and actively looks for vulnerabilities during code reviews
• Identifies opportunities for automation that improve team performance and raises them to the team
• Consistently identifies and capitalizes on opportunities for simplification
• Works with REST APIs, Linux-based server environments, SQL-backed systems, Git Hub workflows, and tools supporting TOC, ADB/ADLS, and Central Server-related workloads
• Supports and maintains applications running on PHP-based back-end systems and Angular-driven UI components

Minimum Qualifications
- Education & Prior Job Experience

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

Preferred Qualifications
- Education & Prior Job Experience

• 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

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Experience with the following technologies:
  • Programming
    
    Languages:
    
    Java, Python, C#, Java script/Typescript, PHP
  • 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 Platforms & Management: SQL, Postgre
    
    SQL, Mongo
    
    DB, Redis, Azure Databricks (ADB), Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)
  • Integration/APIs:
    Kafka, REST, Graph
    
    QL, Resilio, Absolute (incl. future FLS‑Desk integrations)
  • Cloud Providers:
    Azure, AWS
  • Test Automation:
    Selenium, TestNG, Postman, Sonar Qube, Cypress, JUnit/NUnit/PyTest, Cucumber, Playwright, Wiremock/Mockito/Moq
  • Oper…