Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer is a subject matter expert in full-stack software engineering with Alaska Airlines (AS) and Hawaiian Airlines (HA). As an individual contributor, this role exercises considerable judgment to make decisions that support our products top-to-bottom and ship software on a regular basis (anywhere from daily to every two weeks). This role also provides recommendations to address challenges while working in an agile environment with product owners. 

Key Duties

• Acts as a subject matter expert in full-stack engineering on a scrum delivery team, collaborating with product owners, designers, and other engineers to deliver business value on an iterative basis. 
• Coaches and influences team-members on best practices and emerging technologies. 
• Solves complex technology and business problems with new and creative methods. 
• Architects, engineers, tests, deploys, and supports highly scalable and maintainable complex, end-to-end custom software applications. 
• Ensures delivery of high-quality software by writing clean code and utilizing pair programming, test-driven development (TDD), and continuous integration. 
• Actively engages in the technology industry, networks and understands how evolving technologies can benefit our organization.  
• Influences cross-functionality and partners with other disciplines to develop strategy. 
• Develops a solid understanding of the team’s guest experience, business, and systems. 

Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills

Required  

• 4 years of experience in software engineering, or related area. 
• Bachelor’s degree with a focus 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: 
  • Test Automation.  
  • 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. 
• Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability introducing new ideas and technologies to communities of developers. 
• High degree of professionalism and customer service orientation. 
• Excellent communication skills and proven ability to collaborate with a variety of teams. 
• High school diploma or equivalent. 
• Minimum age of 18. 
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. 

Preferred 

• Experience building high-scaled distributed systems running in cloud environments. 
• Experience building and deploying to Kubernetes environments. 
• Experience with DevOps practices and supporting tools. 
• Experience in agile/lean development methodologies. 
• Experience with the Microsoft Technology Stack including Azure, .Net WebAPI, .Net Core., and MS SQL.
• Experience with Modern Angular (v14+).  
• Experience with design patterns and/or SOLID principle. 
• Experience leading technical projects with teams of 3 or more Software Engineers.
• Experience negotiating deployment strategies across multiple teams.

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

$117,700-$176,550 / 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 Air