Lead Engineer Full Stack

Position Summary

The Lead Engineer Full Stack leads development teams in designing, testing, and implementing responsive web applications. In addition to leading and delegating work to other developers, the Lead Engineer will be responsible for standardization of documentation, code reviews, promoting industry standard best practices, performing detailed estimates and completing finalized solution designs/diagrams. The Lead Engineer role requires excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate complex technology related terminology and capabilities to business and non-technical professionals.

The Lead Full Stack Engineer will maintain innovative, scalable solutions that provide value to Jet Blue business initiatives.

• Develop, design, code, debug and document high traffic web applications and services running from cloud platforms.
• Provide technical leadership around the delivery of component designs and development.
• Evaluate new technologies and determine viability per solution.
• Analyze requirements and solution architecture and provide task specific estimates.
• Mentor junior engineers on coding practices and design decisions.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure high quality and consistent coding practices.
• Lead scrum teams in agile methodology, sprint planning, backlog grooming.
• Break down architecture solutions into tasks for team members.
• Collaborate closely with other IT teams globally from Product Management, Architecture, Dev Ops, Quality Assurance (QA), Infrastructure.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field; OR demonstrated capability to perform job responsibilities with a combination of a High School Diploma/GED and at least four (4) years of previous relevant work experience
• Four (4) years of software engineering experience, building responsive web applications and Application Program Interfaces (APIs)
• Four (4) years of professional full stack development using Node Js, Java, Angular
• Four (4) years of experience in agile practices in Scrum teams
• Two (2) years of experience with Magnolia CMS, particularly in headless mode
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD) pipeline and tools like Jenkins, Sonarqube
• Experience with developing software applications in at least one of the major Cloud platforms – Azure, GCP or AWS
• Available for moderate overnight travel (up to 15%)
• In possession of valid travel documents with the ability to travel in and out of the United States
• Able to work flexible hours and be available for emergency response on short notice
• Must pass a pre-employment drug test
• Must be legally eligible to work in the country in which the position is located

• Three (3) years of experience leading/mentoring team of software engineers
• Experience with high traffic, consumer-facing websites
• Experience with Magnolia Content Management Systems (CMS) and Fastly Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
• Knowledge of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Knowledge of modern software architecture, microservices, micro-frontends, serverless applications and frameworks
• Keen interest in application security and knowledge of security best practices
• Knowledge of Dev Ops practices
• Experience with Yarn, Gradle, Web Pack, CSS
• Azure certifications (Developer associate or Solutions Architect)
• Regular attendance and punctuality
• Potential need to work flexible hours and be available to respond on short-notice
• Able to maintain a professional appearance
• When working or traveling on Jet Blue flights, and if time permits, all capable crew members are asked to assist with light cleaning of the aircraft
• Must be an appropriate organizational fit for the Jet Blue culture, that is, exhibit the Jet Blue values of Safety, Caring, Integrity, Passion and Fun
• Promote Jet Blue’s #1 value of safety as a Safety Ambassador, supporting Jet Blue’s Safety Management System (SMS) components, Safety Policy and behavioral standards
• Identify safety and/or security concerns, issues, incidents or hazards that should be reported and report them whenever possible and by any means necessary including…