Developer - Information Technology
United Airlines4 hours ago
Chicago, IL, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$90k - $117k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AWS production services, APIs, event-driven components, message flows, background processing, and data interfaces.
- Own complex technical initiatives through requirements, solution design, implementation, testing, deployment, stabilization, and ongoing support.
- Build reusable services, frameworks, components, and implementation patterns for application teams.
- Develop AI-enabled capabilities using large language model APIs, structured outputs, tool and function calling, retrieval, evaluation, and guardrails.
- Establish engineering standards for API design, messaging, data transformation, resiliency, observability, and operational support.
- Troubleshoot production issues across applications, APIs, messaging, databases, and cloud infrastructure, including root cause analysis and permanent fixes.
- Contribute to automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling.
- Provide technical direction, design and code reviews, mentorship, and guidance to teams adopting shared platform services.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience building, deploying, and supporting production software, backend services, or APIs.
- Demonstrated experience delivering cloud-native solutions on a major public cloud, with meaningful AWS experience.
- Experience connecting SaaS, cloud, packaged, ERP, and internally developed applications and supporting large-scale business-critical production systems.
- Ability to independently lead complex technical work across systems and cross-functional teams, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers.
- Strong troubleshooting, root cause analysis, communication, and technical design skills across application code, APIs, messaging, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
- Hands-on AWS experience with compute, storage, messaging, managed databases, IAM, networking, security fundamentals, and CloudWatch or comparable tooling.
- Strong experience designing and versioning REST APIs and working with JSON, XML, HTTP semantics, API contracts, gateways, distributed systems, authentication, and messaging patterns.
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend language: Python, Java, C#, Node.js, TypeScript, or Go, plus SQL and relational database skills.
- Experience with Git workflows, automated testing, CI/CD, deployment automation, release management, and infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or comparable tooling.
- Hands-on experience building software using large language model APIs, including prompt design, structured outputs, streaming, tool calling, retrieval, evaluation, and AI guardrails.
- Preferred qualifications include agent orchestration, Model Context Protocol, Kafka or Solace, change data capture, schema and contract management, observability, regulated environments, enterprise platforms, and Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Treasury, Projects, or Supply Chain processes.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life, accident and disability benefits.
- Parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter benefits, paid holidays, and paid time off.
- 401(k) and flight privileges.
- The position is eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.
- The base pay range is $89,965.00 to $117,212.00.
- The employer provides reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSC#GitGoGraphQLgRPCJavaNode.jsOracle CloudPythonSOAPSQLTerraformTypeScript
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About United Airlines
United Airlines is a major U.S. carrier that provides passenger air travel and air cargo services across a global network spanning six continents. The company sells tickets and ancillary services through united.com and its mobile apps, operates the MileagePlus loyalty program with co-brand credit card partnerships, and supports operations with large-scale digital systems. Headquartered in Chicago, it is part of publicly traded United Airlines Holdings (NASDAQ: UAL) and a member of Star Alliance.