Senior Technical Lead

United Airlines•Chicago, IL

About The Position

Achieving our goals starts with supporting yours. Grow your career, access top-tier health and wellness benefits, build lasting connections with your team and our customers, and travel the world using our extensive route network. Come join us to create what’s next. Let’s define tomorrow, together. Description Key Responsibilities: As a Senior Technical Lead, you will help us deliver our brand-new API platform on AWS, using an advanced API gateway and service mesh. You’ll build microservices that transform legacy functionality our $4bn ancillary business depends on into scalable technical products. With your experience designing APIs, you’ll help us create standards for future APIs we’ll develop and coach other developers on delivering self-service API products. Develop high-performance APIs to deliver critical ancillary functionality to our business Work with other engineers to deploy and configure our new API gateway Help design observability strategies that allow us to respond and recover to outages in our applications or applications we depend on Apply your opinion and judgement to API functionality we want to offer to help us build applications that are easy for others to consume Mentor other engineers on designing APIs Provide thought leadership and facilitate the development of architecture and development strategies in the ancillary technology area Anticipate future technology requirements and use your hands-on experience to identify winning strategies

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or 8+ years of related experience
Computer science, math, engineering, or related field preferred
Experience designing, developing, and consuming Rest APIs
4+ years of relevant experience
Writing software in at least one object-oriented programming language
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience collaborating with or leading other developers
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in computer science or related field preferred
Experience deploying applications on AWS
Experience developing CI/CD pipelines
AWS or other Cloud Certifications

Responsibilities

Develop high-performance APIs to deliver critical ancillary functionality to our business
Work with other engineers to deploy and configure our new API gateway
Help design observability strategies that allow us to respond and recover to outages in our applications or applications we depend on
Apply your opinion and judgement to API functionality we want to offer to help us build applications that are easy for others to consume
Mentor other engineers on designing APIs
Provide thought leadership and facilitate the development of architecture and development strategies in the ancillary technology area
Anticipate future technology requirements and use your hands-on experience to identify winning strategies