Software Engineer

Company

Alaska Airlines

The Team

Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you.

Role Summary

The Software Engineer role is responsible for developing solutions to complex problems on the cross-functional software product team at Alaska Air Group. As an individual contributor, this role makes recommendations to improve delivery of new features, bug fixes and enhancements to support Alaska’s crew, crew administrators & guests.

Key Duties

• Applies knowledge as an engineer on a full-stack scrum delivery team, collaborating with product owners, designers and other engineers to solve complex technology and business problems.
• Apply industry methodologies to engineer, test, deploy, and support complex, full-stack and mobile customer-facing software applications.
• With limited direction from manager ensures delivery of high-quality software by writing clean code and utilizing pair programming, test-driven development (TDD), and continuous integration/delivery.
• Actively engages in the technology industry, incorporating emerging technology into their day-to-day work.
• Develops an understanding and working knowledge for the team’s guest experience, business, and systems and creates solutions.
• Manages the infrastructure for software applications.

Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills

Required

• 2 years of experience in software engineering or related field.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
• Experience in the following:
  • Utilizing cloud computing.
  • Acting as a software engineer building custom, high scale, n-tier applications using object-orientated languages.
  • Developing web or mobile applications using modern technologies.
  • Utilizing appropriate design patterns to create clean, maintainable, and performant code.
  • Interacting with Git version control to maintain organization and logging of codebase changes.
  • Performing TDD, unit testing, pair programming, and other XP techniques.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum age of 18.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred

• Experience using Azure: Azure functions, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure App Insights, Azure App Service Plan, Azure DevOps, provisioning Azure using ARM Templates and Terraform, Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Experience in iOS development using Swift/SwiftUI.
• Experience in relational databases such as Informix, SQL Server.
• Experience using Visual Studio Enterprise, Visual Studio Code, XCode.
• Experience using GitHub for source control.
• Experience writing technical documentation.
• Experience in creating and maintaining highly scalable applications.
• Good understanding of object-oriented design, automation, and security.
• Previous airline experience.

Job-Specific Leadership Expectations

Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be caring and kind, and deliver performance.

Starting Rate

Salary Range

$91,200 -- $136,800 / year

Bonus

Salary Details

Pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon employees. Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.

 

Note: We don’t typically hire at the top of the range.

Total Rewards

Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status.

 

• Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air
• Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits
• Generous 401k match program
• Quarterly and annual bonus plans
• Generous holiday and paid time off 

For more information about Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits.

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