Tech Lead Software Engineer

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Job Description:

As a Tech Lead Software Engineer supporting Crew Training and Technology, you’ll lead and motivate a Team of developers in planning, delivering, and operating highly reliable software solutions. You’ll be accountable for the technical quality of the products your Development Team delivers, partnering closely with the Business and key Stakeholders to ensure all functional and non-functional expectations are met. You’ll act as the primary interface between the Development Team and Leadership, ensuring capacity, capabilities, and skillsets align with ongoing delivery needs. Your time will span Project Leadership, Technical Leadership and mentoring, and hands-on Software Development/System Engineering. You’ll understand Southwest architectural elements, engage in requirements definition and solution design, and provide technical oversight and guidance to one or more software development Teams within Crew Technology.

Additional Details

• This role is offered as a remote workplace position, which may require travel for trainings, meetings, conferences, etc. Outside of those required visits, the majority of your working time may be spent in a remote location, away from our Corporate Campus. Please note, while this is a remote position, there is limited group of states or localities ineligible for Employees to regularly perform their work off-site. Those ineligible locations are: Alaska, Delaware, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Puerto Rico.

• U.S. citizenship or current authorization to work in the U.S. required and no current or future work authorization sponsorship available.

We’re committed to fair hiring practices and to making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristics. 

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate development estimates in support of feasibility assessments and planned development activities

• Create, maintain, review and approve application designs in collaboration with Solution Architects and shared services Teams, ensuring alignment to the appropriate solution architectures and taking tradeoffs into account

• Develop, maintain, and review software with a focus on quality and maintainability

• Develop, maintain, review, and execute unit, functional, and integration tests with a focus on automation and test-driven development

• Provide technical oversight for performance testing, ensuring plan and outcomes align to expected non-functional requirements

• Plan and oversee application deployment activities and sequencing in non-production and production environments

• Investigate new technologies that could improve the applications and development activities

• Identify and resolve technical debt as appropriate, weighing the development effort against the value returned

• Mentor and coach Development Team on relevant architecture, design, development, and operations topics

• Evaluate code to ensure that it is valid, is properly structured, meets industry standards, and is compatible with browsers, devices, or operating systems

• May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Advanced knowledge of software development methodologies, practices, concepts, and technologies

• Advanced knowledge of at least one programming language and at least general knowledge of one or more additional programming languages

• Knowledge of project management methodology and principles

• Ability to demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a proactive mindset to get ahead of issues

• Skilled in communication with ability to articulate a clear direction and priorities on ideas, approaches, concepts, options, risks, impacts, and recommendations to technical, non-technical, and Leadership audiences with ability to adapt the message accordingly

• Ability to articulate the technical implementation and how it provides business value

• Ability to