Software Development Engineer

How You’ll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)

• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, and contribute to both front-end and back-end development as a full-stack engineer.
• Developing, Designing and demonstrating new features and components of front-end and back-end to users to ensure compliance with requirements
• Build and integrate AI/ML-powered features and agents into applications using AWS AI services.
• 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 that the code that is developed meets their vision .
• Develop 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 well designed, non-complex, testable, efficient code.
• Develop Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment pipelines and automated deployment scripts .
• Configure services, such as databases and monitoring .
• Implement Service Reliability Engineering .
• Fix problems from the development phase through the production phase, which requires being on call for production support .

What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)

• 2+ years of hands-on experience on Software Development in Java, Microservices, Rest-Apis, Relational & NoSql Databases.
• Expert in Functional Programming approaches, preferably in Java.
• Familiarity with AWS AI/ML services such as Amazon SageMaker, Bedrock, and AgentCore.
• Familiarity AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, Kiro) to accomplish tasks such as generating and reviewing code, writing and maintaining tests, creating documentation, and debugging, with the judgment to validate and own AI-generated output.
• Experience working with containerization technologies.
• Knowledge of Authentication and Authorization protocols like oAuth2.0 and openID Connect etc.
• Experience in Spring Framework/ Springboot/ or similar Java Based framework for microservices development.
• Excellent judgment and problem-solving skills; individual should be able to resolve problems in a calm and quick manner and display a high degree of initiative and drive.
• Professional experience working with Agile Methodologies is required.
• Experience working with DevOps principles, practices and tools in an enterprise technology environment is required.
• Experience engineering software within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure or other prominent enterprise cloud provider is required.
• Working knowledge of the full Software Development Lifecycle, building CI/CD pipelines and practicing Test Driven Development is a requirement.
• Experience with source control, build tools and GIT (GitHub, Bitbucket or other) is required.
• Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles.
• Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority
• High School diploma, GED or High School Equivalency

Behavioral Competencies

• Ability to work in collaborative environments and embrace diverse perspectives.
• Communicate clearly and concisely, express thoughts and ideas effectively, and embrace cultural differences with respect when engaging with others.
• Ability to engage effectively with peers and stakeholders to build strong partnerships.
• Prioritize, maintain focus, and consistently deliver commitment.
• Proactively understand customer expectations and willingness to create customer-based solutions.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field is preferred.
• Experience in AWS Cloud Platform is preferred.
• Experience working in an airline technology environment is an added advantage.
• Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) for connecting AI models to external tools and data sources.

About The Company

• What started as a humble, little aerial crop-dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters in 1924 has now grown into the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability, and customer experience. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Delta Air Lines is known for its operational excellence and award-winning customer service.
• Powered by our employees worldwide, Delta has led the airline industry in operational excellence for a decade…