Principal Engineer, IT Software [T500-23597]

About American Airlines: To Care for People on Life's Journey®. Together with our American Eagle regional partners, we offer thousands of flights daily to more than 350 destinations in more than 60 countries. American Airlines is transforming the way it delivers technology to its customers and team members worldwide. American’s Tech Hub in Hyderabad, India, is our latest technology office location and home to team members who drive technical innovation and engineer unrivalled digital products to best serve American’s customers and team members. With U.S. tech hubs in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona, our new team in Hyderabad, India enables better support of our 24/7 operation and positions American to deliver industry-leading technology solutions that create a world-class customer experience.

Principal Engineer, IT Softwar e INTRO: Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise, and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop onboard!

WHY YOU’LL LOVE THIS JOB: As one diverse, high-performing team dedicated to technical excellence, you will focus relentlessly on delivering unrivaled digital products that drive a more reliable and profitable airline. The Software domain refers to the area within Information Technology that focuses on the development, deployment, management, and maintenance of software applications that support business processes and user needs. This includes development, application lifecycle management, requirement analysis, QA, security & compliance, and maintaining the applications and infrastructure.

WHAT YOU’LL DO: This list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations. Writes, tests, and documents technical work products (e.g., code, scripts, processes) according to organizational standards and practices Solves technical problems and builds components/libraries with far-ranging impact Delivers high quality work and coaches more junior engineers on technical craftsmanship Conducts root cause analysis to identify systemic problems and defines and leads execution of action items to address Designs thoughtfully integrated systems that model organizational best practices, allowing disparate teams across product domains to deliver value with speed, scale, and reliability Oversees the management of technical debt in existing systems and drives opportunities to eliminate within ongoing implementations Consistently anticipates scaling, latency, and durability challenges and guides teams in implementation of mitigating strategies Partners with the security organization to incorporate security conscious practices early in the lifecycle of new systems Thoughtfully evaluates technical risks and guides toward practical prevention strategies Consistently reflects on squad delivery practices throughout their span of of influence, recommends improvements to leadership and drives their implementation Maintains a focus on removing the duplication of effort across teams and proactively identifies opportunities for reuse within their span of influence Thoughtfully measures and assesses team and identifies areas of development for individual Explores emerging technologies, leads development of prototypes with little or no guidance and incorporates into architectural solutions where appropriate

ALL YOU’LL NEED FOR SUCCESS: Minimum Qualifications – Education & Prior Job Experience: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training 9+ years of experience designing, developing, and implementing large-scale solutions in production environments

Preferred Qualifications – Education & Prior Job Experience: Master's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training Airline Industry experience

Skills, Licenses, and Certifications: Proficiency with the following technologies: Programming Languages: Java, Python, C#, JavaScript/Typescript Frameworks: Spring/Spring Boot, Fast API Front End Technologies: Angular/React Deployment Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker Source Control: GitHub, Azure DevOps CICD: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Data management: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis Integration/APIs Technologies: Kafka, REST, GraphQL Cloud Providers such as Azure and AWS Test Automation: Selenium, TestNG, Postman, SonarQube, Cypress, JUnit/NUnit/PyTest, Cucumber, Playwright, Wiremock/Mockito/Moq Ability to optimize solutions for performance, resiliency and reliability while maintaining an eye toward simplicity Ability to concisely convey ideas verbally, in writing, in code, and in diagrams Ability to optimize system designs spanning multiple teams to allow small, safe, incremental releases Ability to work through others by cooperatively sharing responsibilities Ability to combines deep knowledge of a product domain with awareness of advancing technology to introduce solutions that propel the technical capability of the organization forward. Proficiency in object-oriented design techniques and principles Proficiency in Agile methodologies, such as SCRUM Proficiency in DevOps Toolchain methodologies, including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

LANGUAGE / COMMUNICATION SKILLS: Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and written with all levels within the organization Physical ability necessary to safely and successfully perform the essential functions of the position, with or without any legally required reasonable accommodations that do not pose an undue hardship. Note: If the Company has reason to question an employee’s physical ability to safely and/or successfully perform the position’s essential job functions, the HR team generally will engage in an interactive process to determine whether a reasonable accommodation is appropriate. HR (working with the operation) ordinarily first speaks with the team member directly and they mutually identify the physical demands of the job that are or may be impacted by the employee’s obvious or known condition. Then, if necessary, HR would request medical documentation from the team member’s treating physician or others to confirm the employee’s ability to perform those essential job functions safely and successfully.

FEEL FREE TO BE YOURSELF AT AMERICAN: Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.

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