Senior Inflight Payments Software Engineer

Panasonic Avionics Corporation; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work opportunities

Health insurance (Aetna/Kaiser)

401K with 50% match

Job summary

Panasonic Avionics Corporation is seeking an experienced application software engineer to join our Software Development team. You will work on in-flight shopping solutions, enabling airlines to offer differentiating payment options and ensuring CI/CD for the eCommerce stack.

The role requires versatile knowledge across OS, DB, backend, UI, and network layers in an avionic system environment. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of software development, extensive experience with C/C++, Java/Android,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of real-world application development experience.
• Experience with C, C++, Go, JavaScript, and unit test frameworks.
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, and Android application development.
• Comfort working across the Java/native boundary on Android (JNI, NDK) to integrate hardware peripherals and vendor-supplied C/C++ SDKs.
• Experience designing/developing RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge of OpenAPI Specification to produce API documentation.
• Knowledge of socket-based concepts.
• Experience in one of the database technologies such as MySQL or MariaDB.
• Hands on experience with scripting languages like Bash.
• Good understanding of TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP protocols.
• Good understanding of Cryptography.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab.
• Experience with observability technologies and dashboarding — instrumenting applications with metrics, logs, and traces, and building dashboards and alerts to monitor service health in production.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Security: Understanding of secure code best practices and payment industry security topics.
• Performance Tuning: Skills in optimizing the performance of server applications to handle loads efficiently and reduce resource costs.
• Highly proficient in project planning while addressing external/internal dependencies across multiple functions.
• Uses professional concepts and applies company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues.
• Develop solutions to clearly defined problems of moderate to diverse scope.
• Demonstrated engineering communication expertise including concise written and verbal skills is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Implements and modifies Payment server application software based on Agile epics and user stories.
• Creates and maintain various test applications to ensure Continuous Integration & Deployment of the eCommerce solution and related software.
• Maintains the developed software efficiently through solid knowledge of software lifecycles.
• Documents architecture designs, including but not limited to functional block diagrams, data, logic, flow, and sequence charts.
• Troubleshoots issues across the whole stack - OS, DB, Backend, UI, and network across multiple environments.

Skills

C/C++

Go

JavaScript

Java/Kotlin/Android

RESTful APIs

OpenAPI

CI/CD (GitLab)

Observability & dashboards

Security best practices

Performance tuning

Networking (TCP/UDP/HTTP)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

8+ years software development experience

Tools

Android NDK

GitLab

MySQL/MariaDB

Job description

Panasonic Avionics Corporation is seeking an experienced application software engineer to join our Software Development team. You will work on in-flight shopping solutions, enabling airlines to offer differentiating payment options and ensuring CI/CD for the eCommerce stack.

The role requires versatile knowledge across OS, DB, backend, UI, and network layers in an avionic system environment. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of software development, extensive experience with C/C++, Java/Android,