(USA-WA-Seattle) Principal Software Engineer, E-commerce

**WHAT WE'RE ABOUT** We're creating an airline people love. It begins with each Alaska Airlines employee, bringing unique strengths and energy to our work in the air and on the ground. Every day, we go beyond what's expected and reach for the remarkable, together. **YOUR ROLE** Role Summary The Principal Software Engineer is the lead subject matter expert in full-stack software engineering and digital experience. As an individual contributor, this role defines long-term strategy for our agile development teams develop and support our products top-to-bottom and ship software on a regular basis (anywhere from daily to every two weeks). This role exercises considerable latitude and initiative to solve problems and influence the way our teams build great products. Key Duties - Acts as the lead subject matter expert on full-stack software engineering on an agile delivery team, collaborating with product owners, designers, and other developers to deliver business value on an iterative basis. - Acts as technology SME for product team, often representing multiple teams to outside stakeholders. - Architects, engineers, tests, and releases 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), continuous integration, and code reviews. - Influences development of technology strategy aligned with achieving department goals and helps team to execute against strategy. - Actively engages in the technology industry, by applying new concepts, networking and speaking on behalf of Alaska at conferences and meetups. - Influences technology maturity across divisions and upwards in the company. - Leverages a deep understanding of the team's guest experience, business, and systems to mentor other engineers across multiple teams. Job-Specific Skills, Education, and Experience - Required - 7 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 must include: - Acting as a full-stack software engineer building custom, high scale, n-tier applications using object-orientated languages (c#, java, etc.). - Developing web or mobile applications using modern technologies (react, swift, etc.) - Utilizing appropriate design patterns to create clean, maintainable, and performant code. - Expertise utilizing cloud technology and modern architecture practices to build high-scale distributed systems. - Expertise mentoring other engineers and driving code quality via principles such as SOLID and modern design patterns. - Experience coaching others with TDD, unit testing, pair programming, and other Extreme Programming (XP) techniques. - Strong interpersonal skills and the confidence to socialize and introduce new ideas and technologies to communities of developers. - Preferred - Experience with DevOps practices and supporting tools. - Experience in Agile/Lean development methodologies. - Experience negotiating requirements with stakeholders directly. Job-Specific Leadership Expectations Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be kind-hearted, deliver performance, and be remarkable. **EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY** Horizon Air and Alaska Airlines are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. Horizon Air and Alaska Airlines will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with applicable Federal, State, and local laws. Horizon Air and Alaska Airlines participate in E-Verify, a service of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administration (SSA), where required. **Job ID** 36326 **Location** Seattle, WA **FLSA Status** Exempt **Full/Part Time** Full-Time **Regular/Temporary** Regular
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