Principal Software Engineer, IT Systems

Jobtome; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel perks

Health benefits

Wellness programs

401(k) program

Job summary

American Airlines is seeking an experienced software engineer to participate in designing, developing, and deploying large-scale digital products. You will write, test, and document code, mentor juniors, and lead efforts to address systemic issues with scalable, secure designs.

The role emphasizes collaboration across product domains, handling technical debt, and proactively improving delivery practices while leveraging modern DevOps, cloud, and API technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field and related experience.
• 9+ years designing, developing, and deploying large-scale production systems.

Responsibilities

• Writes, tests, and documents technical work products (code, scripts, processes) per standards.
• Solves technical problems and builds components with wide impact.
• Delivers high quality work and mentors junior engineers.
• Performs root cause analysis and defines action items.
• Designs integrated systems enabling cross-team delivery with speed and reliability.
• Oversees debt management and drives removal within deployments.
• Anticipates scaling, latency, and durability challenges; guides mitigations.
• Partner with security to embed secure practices early in lifecycle.
• Evaluate risks and propose preventive strategies.
• Improve squad delivery practices and propagate improvements.

Skills

Java

Python

C#

JavaScript/Typescript

Agile

SCRUM

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub

Azure DevOps

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Kafka

REST

GraphQL

Azure

AWS

Selenium

TestNG

Postman

SonarQube

Cypress

JUnit

NUnit

PyTest

Cucumber

Playwright

Wiremock

Mockito

Moq

Job description

American Airlines is seeking an experienced software engineer to participate in designing, developing, and deploying large-scale digital products. You will write, test, and document code, mentor juniors, and lead efforts to address systemic issues with scalable, secure designs.

The role emphasizes collaboration across product domains, handling technical debt, and proactively improving delivery practices while leveraging modern DevOps, cloud, and API technologies.