How youll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)

Delta IT is on a journey of transformation. We are changing the way we do business from top to bottom. As thought-leaders within Delta, we strive to create meaningful and innovative solutions and are looking for team members to help us realize our vision.

Delta IT employees are thinkers, doers, innovators.

We are proactive.

We are collaborative.

We deliver impact to our customers.

Join us on our transformation journey in becoming a world-class IT organization at the worlds best airline! This role can be based in Atlanta or Minneapolis.

Software Development Engineers build code by using core agile practices such as "keep it simple," test-driven development (TDD), continuous integration, polyglot programming, and microservice design. An SDE focuses on developing and implementing modernized specialized business applications, deploying to development, test, staging, and production.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Designing, prototyping and demonstrating new features, in compliance with requirements, to drive value to customers, partners, and/or business & IT stakeholders
Assisting in the design, implementation and optimization of related approaches, tools and workflows.
Collaborate with the technical teams, business teams, and product managers to ensure the code that is developed meets their vision.
Design the solutions to meet functional and technical requirements.
Align to Security/Compliance frameworks and controls requirements.
Own quality posture. Write automated tests, ideally before writing code.
Write code.
Develop infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Develop delivery pipelines and automated test & deployment scripts.
Configure services, such as databases, monitoring, and dashboards.
Implement Service Reliability Engineering.

Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing

Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience, Servant Leadership, and Teamwork – 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
Paid time off including vacation, holidays, paid personal time, maternity and parental leave
Comprehensive health beneﬁts including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life 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)

2 or more years of hands-on experience as a Software Engineer or related technical engineering capacity. Relevant technologies and programming languages include: Python, Java, FastAPI, Spring Boot, relational databases such as DB2 and/or Oracle, NoSQL databases such as Mongo or DynamoDB.
Professional experience working with Agile Methodologies is required.
Experience working with DevOps principles, practices and tools in an enterprise technology environment is required.
Experience consuming and/or producing RESTful APIs.
Working knowledge of the full Software Development Lifecycle, building CI/CD pipelines and practicing Test Driven Development is a requirement.
Fundamental Awareness of Application Security principles and 12-factor application development principles is required.
Experience with source control, build tools and GIT (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or other) is required.
Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles.
Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority.
Effectively analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.

What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications)

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field is preferred.
Experience working in an airline technology environment is preferred.
Experience with the AWS Cloud Development Kit is preferred.
Experience with multiple AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, SQS/SNS, Event Bridge, Step Functions, etc.) is preferred.
Experience with serverless architecture and components on AWS is preferred.
Experience building APIs on AWS is preferred.
AWS Certifications is a plus.
Good understanding of AWS FinOps is a plus.

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