Southwest Airlines is looking to solve the problem of delivering on their Purpose of Connecting People to what's important in their lives through friendly, reliable, and low-cost air travel by hiring a Senior Software Engineer to lead software design discussions, mentor developers, guide validation strategies, drive product health, assure quality deliverables, and support the technical lead position on the Team. This role will identify and prevent production problems and implement immediate resolution efforts across technology areas, acting as a strategic thinker for impactful initiatives driving the future of Southwest.
Requirements
- Advanced knowledge of software development methodologies, practices, concepts, and technologies obtained through formal training and / or work experience
- Advanced knowledge of at least one required programming language
- A dvanced level experience with AWS, Java Script, Dynamo and/or Kafka
Responsibilities
- Drive the technical direction and feature roadmap of large-scale cloud systems
- Serve as a technical lead contributing to and directing the efforts of development teams, including internal and external team members
- Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions
- Drives detailed definition of feature requirements through discussions with product managers and customers
- Supports continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and new technologies
- Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming
- Evaluates code to ensure that it is valid, is properly structured, meets industry standards, and is compatible with browsers, devices, or operating systems
Other
- Ability to articulate (verbally / visually) ideas, approach, concepts, options, risk, impact, and provides guidance to technical, non-technical, and Leadership audiences
- Ability to lead multiple assignments, whether administrative or project related, while maintaining a successful level of completion in all responsible work
- Ability to mentor others
- Ability to lead ideating, presentations, mentoring and group-thinking sessions
- Ability to influence without authority
