Senior Software Engineer

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd•Miami, FL

25d•Onsite

About The Position

The Royal Caribbean Group’s IT Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Senior Software Engineer reporting to the Senior Manager, Database Systems Development. The position is onsite and based in Miami, Florida. The position is also not eligible for work authorization sponsorship. The Senior Software Engineer will design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise web applications using a modern .NET Core + React stack. This role combines hands-on full-stack engineering with technical leadership, modern AI-assisted development practices, and mentorship of other engineers. The Senior Engineer will lead software design, conduct code reviews, drive technical planning, oversee quality, and provide guidance across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), while championing the team's adoption of AI, automation, and modern DevOps tooling across cloud platforms.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field from an accredited institution.
5–7+ years of experience in enterprise / web application development.
Hands-on experience with C#, .NET / .NET Core, ASP.NET Web API.
Strong frontend experience with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS (familiarity with state management — Redux Toolkit / Context — and component libraries such as Ant Design or Material UI).
Strong SQL Server skills; experience designing and tuning relational schemas; familiarity with NoSQL stores is a plus (e.g., Cosmos DB, DynamoDB, MongoDB).
Experience building data-driven web user interfaces backed by REST APIs.
Experience deploying and operating applications on a major cloud platform — Microsoft Azure (App Service, Azure AD, Application Insights, Key Vault, Blob Storage) and/or AWS (ECS/EKS or Elastic Beanstalk, IAM/Cognito, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, S3, RDS).
Experience with Git and pull-request-based workflows.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines — Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or equivalent (Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline).
Experience writing technical design specifications and ADRs.
Familiarity with modern Agile SDLC frameworks (Scrum / Kanban) and tools (Jira, Azure DevOps Boards).
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, ChatGPT/Cursor) and a working understanding of effective prompt engineering, context curation, and AI code review.
Cross-functional communication skills; highly motivated, curious, collaborative, and innovative.
Demonstrated experience leading projects and/or people with a high degree of independence.

Nice To Haves

Experience integrating or building with AI agents and skills (e.g., custom Copilot agents, MCP servers, retrieval-augmented workflows, AI-driven testing or code review).
Experience with Playwright, Jest, xUnit / NUnit, or similar testing frameworks.
Experience with Python for automation, data, or scripting.
Experience with feature flag systems and progressive delivery.
Multi-cloud experience or willingness to work across Azure and AWS; familiarity with cloud-agnostic patterns (containers, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry).
Awareness of OWASP Top 10, secure SDLC practices, and change management controls (e.g., SOX)

Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, and modernization of application modules using C# / .NET Core on the backend and React / TypeScript on the frontend, ensuring alignment with service-oriented and modular architecture principles.
Supervise enhancements and defect resolution across existing modules, improving quality, performance, and integrations with upstream/downstream systems.
Provide strategic technical leadership and guidance to the development team, ensuring high-quality code and sound architectural decisions.
Mentor and coach software engineers, supporting their professional growth — including effective use of AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, MCP servers, custom agents and skills).
Lead thorough design and code reviews, leveraging AI-powered review tools to maintain consistently high standards.
Oversee estimation and delivery planning for software projects, ensuring realistic and achievable commitments.
Lead and actively participate in daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, and release planning, fostering a collaborative team environment.
Translate complex business requirements into practical, scalable software solutions.
Collaborate closely with the Engineering Manager, Product Owner, and Architects to analyze user needs and decide between new development versus modification of existing modules.
Manage and execute the deployment process across Dev → Stage → Prod environments on cloud platforms (Azure and/or AWS), via modern CI/CD pipelines.
Develop and maintain automated testing solutions — unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end (e.g., Playwright for UI, API contract tests for the backend) — and integrate AI-assisted test generation into the workflow.
Lead understanding and management of data outputs from applications, ensuring effective and accurate data utilization.
Help manage the technical infrastructure of applications — cloud compute, managed databases, identity, and SSO — ensuring stability, observability, and performance.
Lead troubleshooting of performance and functional issues across the stack, providing fast, durable resolutions.
Communicate timeline and scope expectations clearly and consistently to the team and to stakeholders.
Lead efforts to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities — secure coding, dependency hygiene, secret management, and SSO-based authorization.
Champion an AI-first engineering culture: contribute to and consume reusable Copilot agents, skills, and prompts; help shape how the team uses AI to plan, build, review, document, and ship software.