Role Summary

The Software Engineer role is responsible for developing solutions to complex problems on the cross-functional software product team at Alaska. As an individual contributor, this role makes recommendations to improve delivering new features, bug fixes and enhancements to support Alaska’s guests and commercial goals.

Key Duties

• Applies knowledge as an engineer on a full-stack scrum delivery team, collaborating with product owners, designers and other engineers to solve complex technology and business problems.
• Engineers, tests, deploys, and supports complex, full-stack customer-facing software applications.
• Ensures delivery of high-quality software by writing clean code and utilizing pair programming, test-driven development (TDD), and continuous integration/delivery.
• Actively engages in the technology industry; incorporating emerging technology into their day-to-day work.
• Develops an understanding and working knowledge for the team’s guest experience, business, and systems and creates solutions.
• Manages the infrastructure for software applications.

Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills

Required

• 2 years of experience in software engineering or related field.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
• Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to collaborate with a variety of team members.
• Demonstrated passion for continuous learning and development.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum age of 18.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred

• Experience in iOS app development, Swift, and Xcode.
• Experience monitoring and maintaining enterprise applications.
• Experience with test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, pair programming and other Extreme Programming (XP) techniques.
• Experience with modern design principles such as the utilization of cloud APIs, MVC architecture, and SOLID principles.
• Experience in agile/lean development methodologies.
• Experience in the airline or travel industry.

Job-Specific Leadership Expectations

Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be kind-hearted, deliver performance, and be remarkable.