Uniteds Digital Technology team designs, develops, and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.

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Job overview and responsibilities

United Airlines’ Customer Technology Platform department partners with business and technology leaders across the company to create high performing services and real time messaging applications across key airline functionalities such as Booking, Check-in, Payment, Reservation systems and Operational Systems to help support the commercial and digital Channels of United.

As a software developer in the Data Enablement team, you will be responsible for the development of mission critical applications, while working with a team of developers. This individual will build high performing, real-time middleware solutions in the extremely critical domains of Baggage, Flight Operations, Reservation Management and Check-in. You will play a large role in building data caches and real time messaging applications, used by operational and commercial systems across the company. Additionally, as a developer, you will build these applications with a focus on delivering cloud based solutions. The individual will use leading edge technologies and enterprise grade integration software on a daily basis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Representing the development team in cross-team meetings, including project design discussions, troubleshooting sessions, and evaluations of new tools.
• Driving decisions and collaborating with other stakeholders to determine how features and projects should be implemented.
• Collaborating with Data services and Engineering teams for patch applications, upgrades, and cloud migrations, as required
• Exemplifying professional excellence and driving quality-focused & sustainable deliverables
• Creating and maintaining architectural designs
• Participating in day-to-day development activities
• Supporting operational health
• Providing assistance and strategic insights to Project Leads, Project Managers, and Business Analysts in project planning and execution
• Advocating for a “shift-left” testing approach by promoting the automation of test scripts within CICD pipelines, emphasizing unit testing, adhering to security standards, and reinforcing this mindset across the team
• Conducting system and integration testing
• Identifying potential risks, devising contingency plans, and resolving issues with innovative technical solutions
• Reducing the complexity of our code within our applications by following design patterns, refactoring convoluted code or outdated design, and removing unnecessary code
• Ensuring the health of EMD as part of a larger ecosystem
• Demonstrating exceptional communication skills that foster a culture of collaboration, personal and team excellence, and articulate, concise dialogue.
• Aiding in the technical documentation and knowledge transfer on the team
• Aligning EMD to the company vision of CICD pipelines, AWS configurations, and Infrastructure As Code principles.

This position is offered on local terms and conditions. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded.

United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

Required 

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or professional degree
• AWS or other Cloud Certifications
• 4+ years of relevant experience in a development role
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must be able to collaborate with various teams
• Must be able to work under defined constraints
• Must encourage and support team empowerment and a sense of shared ownership
• Must proactively welcome feedback and experimentation for process or behaviors that are within the team’s scope of control
• Should be able to do hands-on design and development in Java
• Must be legally authorized to work in India for any employer without sponsorship
• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
• Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position
• Java 17, Sprint Boot, Maven
• AWS EKS, ECS, Kubernetes, Route 53, Reddis Cache, IAM Role, S3 Bucket, DynamoDB, Aurora MySQL, SQS/SNS
• Solutioning using eventing and asynchronous processes
• Solutioning using multithreaded environments
• Solutioning using microservices and distributed systems