How you'll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)
At Delta Air Lines, connection is at the heart of everything we do and guides our every action. We strive to welcome and care for all of our customers during their travels with us and aim to deliver an elevated experience.
Delta is focused on sustaining a strong IT operation, growing our capabilities, and maximizing optimization across each of our tech hubs to elevate the travel experience for our customers and empower our 90,000 Delta people.
We’re committed to fostering innovation, and we’re excited to invite you to be part of our journey as we shape the future of technology at the world’s best airline!
Your Responsibilities in the role:
- Design and develop business, application, data, and infrastructure solutions, seek opportunities to optimize performance, maintain and troubleshoot application components as required in the cloud.
- Design and develop with consideration for Non-Functional Requirements (Scalability, Reliability, Availability, Observability, Fault Tolerance, Security, and Maintainability).
- Write well designed, non-complex, testable, efficient code.
- Develop test case design, perform test case execution, and work with product teams to resolve identified issues
- Use and contribute to the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process
- Have the continuous improvement mindset on all areas of development and deployment.
- Create system documentation/playbook(s) and serve as technical reviewer and contributor in requirements, design, and code review
- Be a key voice in technical initiatives and projects requiring integration of cross-functional systems.
- Collaborate with developers across multiple products to build consensus on creation of reusable application components.
- Aid and cover for other team members where required, including troubleshooting and maintenance of production systems/programs/applications.
Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing
Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience and Servant Leadership – every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way:
- Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives
- 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%
- New hires are eligible for up to 2-weeks of vacation. This is earned for use in the following vacation year (April 1 – March 31)
- In addition to vacation, new hires are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid personal time within a 12-month period
- 10 paid holidays per calendar year
- Birthing parents are eligible for 12-weeks of paid maternity/parental leave
- Non-birthing parents are eligible for 2-weeks of paid parental leave
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance benefits
- Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages
- Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health
- Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members
- Career development programs to achieve your long-term career goals
- World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint
- Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies
- Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together
- Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare
What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications)
- Minimum 3-5 years of Software Development experience in Java
- Knowledge of relational databases such as Oracle, NoSQL databases and web service development standards and practices, including RESTful APIs, microservices, and SOA services.
- Expert in Functional Programming approaches, preferably in Java
- Experience with microservices
- Cloud-native development in the Spring/Spring Boot ecosystem and strong working knowledge of developing and deploying applications in major cloud providers (AWS or Azure)
- Experience in cloud managed services and DB (RDS, NoSQL/DynamoDB, serverless, etc.)
- Have implemented code coverage, code complexity, code quality.
- Considering Observability, Monitoring, Logging, and Tracing as part of development leveraging managed services like AWS CloudWatch, Jeger, Kiali and Dynatrace etc.
- Experience with Test Driven Development, exposure to Behavior Driven Development
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience working in an agile development environment using workload management tools like VersionOne.
- Experience with system integrations, optimizing performance and data integrity.
- Passion for driving continuous improvement.
- Proactive and able to quickly pick up new technologies.
- Strong technical and non-technical communication skills. Assures smooth flowing, timely transmission of critical information.
- Excellent judgment and problem-solving skills; individual should be able to resolve problems in a calm and quick manner and display a high degree of initiative and drive.
- Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.
- Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
- Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency.
- Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.
What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications)
- Experience in Cloud Technologies (preferably AWS) and application migration to cloud
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate
- Experience in Containers, Kubernetes, Docker and frameworks like OpenShift.
- Experience with automation and test tools (Postman, Mockito, SonarQube)
- Experience with test driven development
- Bachelors degree, or equivalent work experience.
