The Team

It should come as no surprise that Alaska Airlines is recognized as one of Seattle’s most desirable companies for engineers and technology professionals. Our technology teams are regularly disrupting the way our guests experience air travel. We are innovators and creators, striving to continually improve our award-winning technology in ways that make travel as simple, enjoyable and seamless as possible. We are not content to rest on our successes. We take pride in the fact that our ideas have become the norm across the industry, and we are always thinking about what's next! Our culture of collaboration, history of launching industry-leading products, and experienced teams that work at the highest levels of software development help us to pioneer technologies that are creating an airline people love.

Role Summary

The Software Engineer role is responsible for developing solutions to complex problems on the cross-functional software product team at Alaska. As an individual contributor, this role makes recommendations to improve delivering new features, bug fixes and enhancements to support Alaska’s guests and commercial goals.

Key Duties

• Applies knowledge as an engineer on a full-stack scrum delivery team, collaborating with product owners, designers and other engineers to solve complex technology and business problems.

• Engineers, tests, deploys, and supports complex, full-stack customer-facing software applications.

• Ensures delivery of high-quality software by writing clean code and utilizing pair programming, test-driven development (TDD), and continuous integration/delivery.

• Actively engages in the technology industry; incorporating emerging technology into their day-to-day work.

• Develops an understanding and working knowledge for the team’s guest experience, business, and systems and creates solutions.

• Manages the infrastructure for software applications.

Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills

Required

• 2 years of experience in software engineering or related field.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.

• Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to collaborate with a variety of team members.

• Demonstrated passion for continuous learning and development.

• High school diploma or equivalent.

• Minimum age of 18.

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred

• Experience microservice architecture and API development.

• Experience with test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, pair programming and other Extreme Programming (XP) techniques.

• Experience working as a full-stack engineer.

• Experience with modern, cloud-based infrastructure such as Kubernetes.

• Experience with modern design principles, such as the development and utilization of cloud APIs, single-page web apps, hybrid mobile development, and SOLID principles.

• Experience in agile/lean development methodologies.

Job-Specific Leadership Expectations

Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be kind-hearted, deliver performance, and be remarkable.

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

Where permitted by applicable law, new hires must have received the COVID-19 vaccine. The Company will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees with disabilities or for a sincerely held religious belief.

Total Rewards

Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status.

• Competitive total rewards package

• Medical, dental and vision benefits

• 401k match program

• Monthly incentive pay plan

• Annual incentive pay plan

• Generous paid time off

• Travel privileges on Alaska Airlines & Horizon Air