Senior Developer - .Net Developer/Mobile Applications - United Airlines

There’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. United's Digital Technology team spans the globe and is made up of diverse individuals all working together with pioneering 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.

Job overview and responsibilities

This role is hybrid not remote. 2 days a week in the Houston Office. 

Mobile is the future. If you're interested in a career that involves using the latest Mobile and most modern technologies, please look no further. We at United, cherish and are proud to be part of Best Travel App in the Airlines Industry. United is seeking versatile and motivated Backend developers to be a part of their Mobile teams in Houston, TX. The Digital Innovation Cloud Backend Developer will partner with the various multi-functional team and IT to develop, program, and test various projects dealing with the latest Cloud and Mobile technologies. This changing landscape requires a versatile team that is in touch with the market, passionate about new technology, while at the same time able to understand the needs of our customers and how emerging technology can improve the customer experience.

• Collaborate closely with the various team , business partners and IT to plan and implement a range of projects centered around innovative mobile technologies.
• Manage the entire lifecycle of mobile applications, from conceptualization and design to development, deployment, testing, release on app stores, and ongoing support.
• Ability to creatively architect and design programs to meet the goals and requirements of various projects
• Contribute to building AI based recommendation models using cloud Native services and enhanced personalized experience
• Quickly integrate and update projects
• Contribute to team efforts by completing project tasks on schedule and collaborating with fellow developers.
• These solutions are critical and crucial to various front-end as well as server based applications
• Provide technical insight on existing cloud platforms to improve performance, availability and utilization optimizations
• Performs research and development to evaluate emerging technologies and their potential to optimize the platform
• Evaluate, suggest and implement third party software as needed
• Make efficient use of source control and bug tracking systems
• Reviews estimates for software development and delivery to ensure quality and accuracy
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability and general reliability
• Partner with the various multi-functional team and IT teams to test and iterate on developed software and programs
• Prepare projects for hand-off and deployments as “proof concepts” move to production
• Ability to quickly adapt to changes and learning from field testing
• Participate in mentoring and skills transfer to junior members of the team
• Participate in software code reviews to ensure the creation of high-quality, robust code by all team members
• Provide tier 3 support for all mobile platforms when needed

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.

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information systems
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software application design, development, installation, and modification.
• Strong knowledge and experience of .NET Core, C#
• Hands on experience in building microservice in AWS is must
• Proficient in the design of RESTful APIs, you understand how CRUD maps to APIs and can stand by critical principles such as HTTP verbs and code.
• Sound understanding of Message queues/broker like Solace, Kafka, AMQ , SQS and Event driven architecture : Different Patterns with pub/sub, topic, queues, etc.
• Proficient with NoSQL Database like Mongo Db, Elasticache and understand the core concepts of NoSQL DB
• Strong understanding of LINQ syntax and ORMs (EF Core preferable)
• Experienced and hands on understanding of System Design Principals
• Nice to have - AWS Neptune / any similar Graph Database experience
• Nice to have experience with AWS – AI based recommendation models
• Nice to have exposure to OpenTelemetry and / or experience with any telemetry libraries.
• Strong understanding of source code control tools (Gitlab) and branching model
• Must have legal authorization to work in the United States for any employer without requiring sponsorship