Software Engineer Airline Jobs in Bothell, WA (NOW HIRING)

Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you.

The Senior Software Engineer is a subject matter expert in full-stack software engineering with Alaska Airlines (AS) and Hawaiian Airlines (HA). As an individual contributor, this role exercises considerable judgment to make decisions that support our products top-to-bottom and ship software on a regular basis (anywhere from daily to every two weeks). This role also provides recommendations to address challenges while working in an agile environment with product owners. 

• Acts as a subject matter expert in full-stack engineering on a scrum delivery team, collaborating with product owners, designers, and other engineers to deliver business value on an iterative basis. 
• Coaches and influences team-members on best practices and emerging technologies. 
• Solves complex technology and business problems with new and creative methods. 
• Architects, engineers, tests, deploys, and supports highly scalable and maintainable complex, end-to-end custom software applications. 
• Ensures delivery of high-quality software by writing clean code and utilizing pair programming, test-driven development (TDD), and continuous integration. 
• Actively engages in the technology industry, networks and understands how evolving technologies can benefit our organization.  
• Influences cross-functionality and partners with other disciplines to develop strategy. 
• Develops a solid understanding of the team's guest experience, business, and systems.  

Required  

• 4 years of experience in software engineering, or related area. 
• Bachelor's degree with a focus in Computer Science or a related field, or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree. 
• Experience in the following: 
  • Test Automation.  
  • Utilizing cloud computing. 
  • Acting as a software engineer building custom, high scale, n-tier applications using object-orientated languages. 
  • Developing web or mobile applications using modern technologies. 
  • Utilizing appropriate design patterns to create clean, maintainable, and performant code. 
  • Interacting with Git version control to maintain organization and logging of codebase changes. 
  • Performing TDD, unit testing, pair programming, and other XP techniques. 
• Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability introducing new ideas and technologies to communities of developers. 
• High degree of professionalism and customer service orientation. 
• Excellent communication skills and proven ability to collaborate with a variety of teams. 
• High school diploma or equivalent. 
• Minimum age of 18. 
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. 

Preferred 

• Experience building high-scaled distributed systems running in cloud environments. 
• Experience building and deploying to Kubernetes environments. 
• Experience with DevOps practices and supporting tools. 
• Experience in agile/lean development methodologies. 
• Experience with .Net WebAPI and .Net Core.  
• Experience with design patterns and/or SOLID principle. 

Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be caring and kind, and deliver performance.

Pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon employees. Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.

Note: We don't typically hire at the top of the range.

Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status.

• Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air
• Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits
• Generous 401k match program
• Annual bonus plans
• Generous holiday and paid time off 

For more information about Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement  

It is the policy of Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and to ensure equal opportunity in all terms, conditions, and benefits of employment or potential employment.   

We also prohibit discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.  

We have established an EEO Compliance Program under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 ("Section 503") and the Vietnam Era Veteran's Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 ("VEVRAA").  All applicants and employees are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. In addition, we have established an audit and reporting system to allow for effective measurement of its equal employment opportunity activities.   

To implement this policy, we will: 

(1) Recruit, hire, train and promote qualified persons in all job titles, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and any other legally protected categories; (2) Ensure that employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements; and (3) Ensure that all personnel actions and employment activities such as compensation, benefits, promotions, layoffs, return from layoff, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air sponsored programs, and tuition assistance will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories. 

Employees and applicants for employment will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion or discrimination because they have engaged or may engage in (1) filing a complaint, (2) opposing any act or practice made unlawful by, or exercising any other right protected by, any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA, or (3) assisting or participating in any investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions  of VEVRAA. 

Government Contractor & Department of Transportation (DOT) Regulations Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air are regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT - regulations, 49 CFR part 40) and all applicants are advised that post-offer and/or pre-employment drug testing will be conducted to determine the presence of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, phencyclidine (PCP) and amphetamines or a metabolite of these drugs prior to any offer or employment or transfer into a safety-sensitive position. Failure to submit to testing or positive indications of drug use will render the applicant ineligible for employment with Alaska Airlines/Hawaiian Airlines/Horizon Air and any employment offer will be withdrawn.