Senior Software Engineer

Our client, a major U.S. airline, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their SRE team, a small group of 4 engineers and an architect supported by a larger offshore team. It's a 6 month contract-to-hire, hybrid in Fort Worth, TX, onsite 3 days a week. While this is an SRE team, the role is engineering focused. This person will build and maintain full stack applications using Java Spring on the back end and Angular or React on the front end, develop the team’s AI agents, and build resiliency improvements like retries and code rewrites that get rolled out to other applications.

They'll also learn the applications the team supports and resolve alerts and incidents using telemetry tools, with training provided on observability and incident management. We're looking for a strong full stack Java Spring developer who enjoys troubleshooting, can quickly pick up unfamiliar code bases, and has hands-on experience building with AI, which is the key differentiator for this role. Experience that is mostly front end development, maintenance-only work on legacy applications, QA or test automation, or traditional support, SRE, or infrastructure work without hands-on application development is not a fit.

The schedule is 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM Central, 5 days a week, on a rotation that includes weekends.

This position is W-2 only. We do not work with third-party firms or C2C arrangements for this role.

• Design, build, and maintain back end services and APIs using Java and Spring Boot
• Build front end features using Angular or React
• Develop and enhance the team’s in-house AI agents
• Build resiliency patterns and proofs of concept, such as retries and code rewrites, that are rolled out to other applications
• Learn the architecture and code of the applications the team supports
• Resolve alerts and incidents using telemetry and observability tools
• Troubleshoot production issues and identify root causes
• Integrate applications using messaging frameworks such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or JMS
• Write, test, and document code according to team standards
• Collaborate with onshore engineers, offshore teams, and engineers from other product teams

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
• 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and implementing large-scale solutions in production environments
• Hands-on experience building back end services and APIs with Java and Spring or Spring Boot
• Hands-on front end development experience with Angular or React
• Hands-on experience building with AI, such as AI agents or LLM-powered features, or using AI tools in the development process
• Experience troubleshooting and debugging applications in production
• Ability to quickly learn and work in unfamiliar code bases
• Experience working with messaging frameworks such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, JMS, or Azure Service Bus
• Located in or willing to relocate to the Dallas/Fort Worth area and work onsite 3 days a week
• Able to work 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM Central, 5 days a week, on a rotating schedule that includes weekends

• Experience building AI agents or agentic systems
• Monitoring and observability experience with tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, or Prometheus
• Site reliability engineering or incident response experience
• Experience building resiliency patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, or fallbacks
• Cloud experience, especially Microsoft Azure, or AWS
• Dev Ops and CI/CD experience with tools such as Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure Dev Ops
• Containerization experience with Docker or Kubernetes
• Microservices architecture experience
• Experience in airline, travel, logistics, or other high-volume, real-time…