Southwest Airlines Software Engineer

Southwest Airlines; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 57,308,160 - 85,962,240; Full time

Job summary

Southwest Airlines is seeking a Tech Lead Software Engineer in Austin, TX. The role requires leadership, system design, and hands-on development with a focus on scalable software solutions. You will guide engineering decisions, coordinate with product and operations teams, and drive best practices in code quality and delivery.

The position emphasizes collaboration, architecture oversight, and mentoring staff while delivering robust software in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree required.
• Experience with software development practices and methodologies.
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to explain technical decisions and business value.

Responsibilities

• Provide exact improvement gauges on plausibility evaluations and advancement exercises.
• Plan, review, and endorse application plans with cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with models and tradeoffs.
• Create, maintain, and review software with focus on quality and practicality.
• Develop and execute unit, functional, and integration tests with emphasis on automation and TDD.
• Provide technical oversight to performance testing, ensuring designs meet requirements.
• Plan and manage deployment activities in non-production and production environments.
• Explore new technologies to improve applications and development processes.
• Identify and resolve technical debt as appropriate to deliver business value.
• Mentor and coach the DevOps team on engineering, design, and operations topics.
• Review code to ensure legality, structure, standards compliance, and cross-platform compatibility.
• May perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

AWS

Java

GitLab

Software development methodologies

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GitLab

AWS

Job description

Position: Tech Lead Software Engineer

Salary: $20-30 per hour

Company: Southwest Airlines

Location: Austin, USA

Educational Requirements: Bachelor Degree

Responsibilities

• Give exact improvement gauges on the side of plausibility evaluations and arranged advancement exercises
• Make, keep up with, survey, and endorse application plans in a joint effort with Arrangement Planners and shared administrations Groups, guaranteeing arrangement to the fitting arrangement models and considering tradeoffs
• Create, keep up with, and survey programming with an emphasis on quality and practicality
• Create, keep up with, survey, and execute unit, useful, and combination tests with an emphasis on computerization and test-driven improvement
• Give specialized oversight to execution testing, guaranteeing plan and results adjust to anticipated non-utilitarian prerequisites
• Plan and administer application sending exercises and sequencing in non-creation and creation conditions
• Explore new advances that could work on the applications and improvement exercises
• Distinguish and determine specialized obligation as fitting, gauging the improvement exertion against the worth returned
• Tutor and mentor Advancement Group on important engineering, plan, improvement, and activities points
• Assess code to guarantee that it is substantial, appropriately organized, fulfills industry guidelines, and is viable with programs, gadgets, or working frameworks
• May perform other work obligations as coordinated by Representative's Chiefs

Qualifications

• Liked: Information on AWS, Java or Java Administrations, or Gitlab
• High-level information on programming improvement systems, practices, ideas, and advancements
• High-level information on somewhere around one programming language and essentially broad information on at least one extra programming dialect
• Information on the project the board system and standards
• Capacity to exhibit solid scientific and critical abilities to think with a proactive outlook to stretch out beyond issues
• Talented in correspondence with the capacity to express an unmistakable bearing and needs on thoughts, approaches, ideas, choices, dangers, effects, and proposals to specialized, non-specialized, and Administration crowds with the capacity to in like manner adjust the message
• Capacity to explain the specialized execution and how it gives business esteem
• Capacity to lead ideation, show, and gathering thinking meetings
• Capacity to impact successfully without power up through Senior Initiative levels to accomplish wanted business results
• Capacity to lead various endeavors simultaneously, whether regulatory or project related while keeping an effective degree of fulfillment in their work
• Capacity to work in a quick-moving, Group based, Client support situated climate