DescriptionThere’s never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines. We’re on a path towards becoming the best airline in the history of aviation. Our shared purpose – Connecting People, Uniting the World – is about more than getting people from one place to another. It also means that as a global company that operates in hundreds of locations around the world with millions of customers and tens of thousands of employees, we have a unique responsibility to uplift and provide opportunities in the places where we work, live and fly, and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. And we’re growing – in the years ahead, we’ll hire tens of thousands of people across every area of the airline. Our careers include a competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you happy, healthy and well-traveled. From employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities to world-class benefits like parental leave, 401k and privileges like space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work. Are you ready to travel the world?
We believe that inclusion propels innovation and is the foundation of all that we do. Uniteds Digital Technology team spans the globe and is made up of diverse individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. Our team designs, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.
Key Responsibilities: At United, the Sr. Solution Engineer is responsible for the design and delivery of cutting edge enterprise solution that directly impacts the travel experience of our millions of customers at hundreds of airports. Responsibility includes estimation, planning, design, developing and operationalizing large scale innovative solutions.
- Engineers and designs operationally critical complex applications in Cloud based platform
- Performs hands-on development, helps with deployment, support and resolving software systems issues as required.
- Takes delivery ownership, helps with change analysis & effort estimation, and supports Quality assurance teams and coach developers to meet deadlines.
- Collaborate to create delivery roadmap along with Product Owners, Enterprise & Platform Architects, Analysts, Enterprise UX designers and other enterprise teams.
- Optimize performance, resolve problems, provide follow-up on all issues and solutions.
- Consults with architecture and platform experts to ensure consistency and coherence to the enterprise standards and guiding principles throughout the application lifecycle
- Ensures application designs meet security, scalability, availability and performance requirements.
- Identifies & demonstrate opportunities, influences technology decisions via innovative proof of concepts
- Stays on top of industry trends through benchmarking, participation in professional associations etc. to advise others of strategic technology direction, forms guidelines for teams towards standard process implementations.
- Demonstrate mastery of the application of development domain areas and multiple technologies and tool sets
United values diverse experiences, perspectives, and we encourage everyone who meets the minimum qualifications to apply. While having the “desired” qualifications make for a stronger candidate, we encourage applicants who may not feel they check ALL of those boxes! We are always looking for individuals who will bring something new to the table!
QualificationsWhat’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications): - Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology or related field
- 5+ years of experience developing scalable, performant, secure & reliable responsive web applications.
- 5+ years of full-stack development experience in Angular (or similar front end technology) and .Net REST APIs
- Exceptional at coding and on time delivery of high-quality components
- Experienced with AWS native technologies such as EC2, S3, RDS, EKS, Lambda, AmazonMQ, API Gateway, DynamoDB etc.
- Experienced with serverless technologies, services, and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Creativity & innovation, avid learner of new technologies
- Self-starter, understands the big picture in technology systems & applications.
- Effective verbal and written communicator
- Proficient in software development following Agile methodologies.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):- Proven track record of implementing large scale enterprise application
- Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Deployment pipelines to Cloud infrastructure, well architected framework
- Familiarity with secure development practices
- Airline systems development is a plus
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. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodationsunited.com to request accommodation.
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