Description
Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America. Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.
Do you enjoy developing cloud-based solutions to complex problems? Air Canada Digital team is building a fast-moving development team to build enterprise applications. This is an excellent opportunity for a results-oriented software developer to analyze and develop leading-edge solutions. With our agile development teams, the candidate should be self-driven, highly motivated, innovative, and ready to deliver.
The Senior Developer will report to the Manager, Digital Development.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, define project scope, and establish technical specifications with a particular emphasis on security and quality considerations.
- Lead the application development, providing technical guidance and support throughout the software development life cycle.
- Conduct regular code reviews, ensuring adherence to secure coding practices, coding standards, and quality guidelines.
- Identify and resolve technical challenges, bugs, and performance issues in a timely manner.
- Stay updated with the latest industry trends, technologies, and frameworks related to software security, and recommend their adoption as appropriate.
- Collaborate with product owners, designers, and other stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into secure, high-quality technical solutions.
- Drive the implementation of secure development practices, including secure authentication and authorization mechanisms, data encryption, and secure communication protocols.
- Ensure the software applications scalability, reliability, and security by leveraging cloud platforms like Azure and AWS.
- Participate in agile development processes, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospective meetings.
- Actively contribute to the improvement of development processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance team efficiency, security, and software quality.
Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
- 4+ years of experience in software development for enterprise services and applications.
- Professional experience in developing applications using Node.js for cloud/serverless environments.
- Application development experience using Microservices and Event-driven architectures—real-world experience with mission-critical enterprise REST APIs.
- Experience with AWS serverless technologies (Lambda/DynamoDB/API Gateway/Messaging/RDS)
- Application development experience with Relational Databases (Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL) and PL/SQL. Experience with NoSQL databases will be an added advantage.
- Experience with Web-related technologies, including HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and React.
- Very comfortable developing in an Agile environment with experience in source control systems like Git, Bit-Bucket, etc.
- Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery/Deployment Experience. Comfortable in testing and troubleshooting using tools like Postman/Swagger/Fiddler etc.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and in rapidly changing environments or uncertain conditions.
- Demonstrates openness and willingness to adapt to new ways of doing things.
- Takes responsibility for the results and actively participates in the organizations future direction.
- Demonstrates concern for satisfying external and internal customers.
- Focuses on accomplishing the team’s and unit’s work; sets challenging goals; and meets or exceeds goals.
- Ability and desire to work cooperatively with others on a team in person and remotely.
- Approaches a problem by using a logical, systematic, and sequential approach
Assets: Certifications in core programming languages, Cloud platforms, DevOps, and Agile methodologies
Conditions of Employment:
- Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest, at the time any offer of employment is made and seeking any required work permits/visas or other authorizations which may be required is the sole responsibility of the candidates applying for this position.
Linguistic Requirements
Based on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.
Diversity and Inclusion
Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.
Air Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.
