Hybrid Principal Software Engineer

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About the role

  • Principal Software Engineer leading full-stack software engineering and digital experience efforts at Alaska Airlines. Collaborating with teams to deliver high-quality software solutions and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Acts as the lead subject matter expert on full-stack software engineering on an agile delivery team, collaborating with product owners, designers, and other developers to deliver business value on an iterative basis.
  • Acts as technology SME for product team, often representing multiple teams to outside stakeholders.
  • Architects, engineers, tests, and releases highly scalable and maintainable complex, end-to-end custom software applications.
  • Ensures delivery of high-quality software assigned through clean coding practices and utilizing pair programming, test-driven development (TDD), continuous integration, and code reviews.
  • Influences development of technology strategy aligned with achieving department goals and helps team to execute against strategy.
  • Actively engages in the technology industry, by applying new concepts, networking and speaking on behalf of Alaska at conferences and meetups.
  • Influences technology maturity across divisions and upwards in the company.
  • Leverages a deep understanding of the team’s guest experience, business, and systems to mentor other engineers across multiple teams.

Requirements

  • 7 years of experience in software engineering, or related area.
  • Bachelor’s degree with a focus in Computer Science or a related field, or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
  • Acting as a full-stack software engineer building custom, high scale, n-tier applications using object-orientated languages (c#, java, etc.).
  • Utilizing appropriate design patterns to create clean, maintainable, and performant code.
  • Expertise utilizing cloud technology and modern architecture practices to build high-scale distributed systems.
  • Expertise mentoring other engineers and driving code quality via principles such as SOLID and modern design patterns.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to drive new ideas and technologies to communities of developers.
  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • Minimum age of 18.
  • Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Benefits

  • Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air
  • Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits
  • Generous 401k match program
  • Quarterly and annual bonus plans
  • Generous holiday and paid time off

Job title

Principal Software Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$138,500 - $207,750 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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