How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)
Role Summary
We are seeking a Technical Product Engineer at the Senior level to join our dynamic product engineering team. This role is pivotal in bridging technical depth with strategic product thinking to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions in the airline domain. You will own and drive the technical roadmap, collaborate across functions, and ensure delivery excellence with a focus on continuous improvement and customer-centricity.
Key Responsibilities
- Product Vision & Technical Strategy
- Translate product vision into actionable technical initiatives and milestones.
- Align a technical roadmap with business goals and broader product strategy.
- Serve as a key contributor in shaping architectural and design decisions.
- Ensure that the work is strategically aligned to portfolio mission and engage with other TPE's to align and manage dependencies within portfolio and across portfolios
- Agile Product Ownership
- Actively participate in all Agile ceremonies: planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Create, prioritize, sequence, and maintain the product backlog
- Lead backlog grooming and ensure stories are well-defined and ready for sprint cycles.
- Balance delivery between new features, technical debt resolution, and maintenance.
- Technical Backlog & Story Management
- Prioritize and manage backlog focusing on infrastructure, architecture, and enablers.
- Assist with the elaboration of Features into user stories that are detailed enough to be achieved in every sprint
- Write and refine user stories with clear acceptance criteria and business context.
- Ensure continuous grooming and planning readiness for upcoming sprints.
- Bug Triage & Issue Management
- Lead bug triaging with QA and engineering to evaluate severity and root cause.
- Drive prioritization of fixes based on business impact and urgency.
- Oversee resolution of production issues and maintain clear communication with stakeholders.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Act as the bridge between product, engineering, QA, architecture, and business teams.
- Gather and articulate technical requirements aligned with business needs.
- Build alignment and clarity across all involved teams.
- Technical Oversight & Quality
- Contribute to architectural design, API standards, integration frameworks, and non functional requirements (security, performance, scalability).
- Ensure technical feasibility and delivery integrity of proposed solutions.
- Monitor sprint execution and mitigate blockers with the team.
- KPIs, Delivery, and Continuous Improvement
- Track and analyze Engineering KPIs, release velocity, defect density, and system health.
- Drive retrospectives and process enhancements.
- Champion innovation and engineering excellence within the team.
What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 7–10 years of experience in software product development, with at least 2 years in a technical product/engineering role.
- Strong understanding of Agile development practices, CI/CD, and DevOps pipelines
Behavioral Competencies
- Team Collaboration & Culture: Champion collaboration and team-first mindset across all levels.
- Customer-Centric Mindset: Prioritize internal and external user needs in every decision.
- Motivation & Empowerment: Inspire team ownership and high performance.
- Ownership & Accountability: Drive initiatives with end-to-end ownership and a sense of urgency.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build trusted relationships with cross-functional teams and leadership.
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Proven experience in managing technical backlogs, writing user stories, API testing and stakeholder engagement.
- Prior exposure to airline, travel, or transportation systems is a strong plus.
- Technical proficiency across backend, frontend, APIs, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), and monitoring tools.
About The Company
- What started as a humble, little aerial crop-dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters in 1924 has now grown into the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability, and customer experience. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Delta Air Lines is known for its operational excellence and award-winning customer service.
- Powered by our employees worldwide, Delta has led the airline industry in operational excellence for a decade while maintaining our reputation for award-winning customer service. With our mission of connecting the people and cultures of the globe, Delta strives to foster understanding across a diverse world and serve as a force for social good.
- In 2026, Delta Air Lines continued to earn global recognition for its performance, culture and operational excellence. Delta was named to Glassdoor's 2026 Top 100 Best Places to Work list for the ninth time, standing as the only airline recognized. Delta also secured the 11th spot on Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies list, marking its 13th consecutive year earning this distinction. Delta was also recognized by Cirium as the top on-time airline in North America for the fifth consecutive year, underscoring its unwavering commitment to reliability and customer experience.
About The Delta Technology Hub (DTH), Bangalore
The DTH is one of Delta Air Lines investments in world-class business capabilities and technology aimed at transforming how Delta Air Lines operates and provides world-class travel experiences to its customers through innovation and cutting-edge methodologies. By continuously reimagining processes and driving technology-led transformation, the Delta Technology Hub plays a pivotal role in Scripting The Future of Aviation. The organization is certified by the Great Place to Work Institute (India). The Delta Technology Hub was a finalist for the iVolunteer Awards 2024/2025 in the Leader in Employee Volunteering category. This nomination highlights our remarkable volunteering initiatives and the outstanding practices we implement to encourage and support our employee volunteering program. For more information, please visit www.deltatechhub.com
Why join
Technology is a key enabler of the differentiated services that Delta provides. At the DTH, you get the opportunity to work on projects with a significant impact on business outcomes and customer experience.
- Deepen your knowledge by taking part in multifaceted learning and development programs –exposure to extensive internal and partner repositories, institutional affiliations, and industry SIG (Special Interest Groups) partnerships.
- Immerse yourself in an employee-centric culture.
- Develop deep and broad business acumen on airline operations while retaining focus on cutting-edge technology driven solutions.
- Avail a full range of benefits that support you and your family: Medical Insurance, Transportation to and from the DTH office, Complementary Cafeteria Meals, Special Travel opportunities and Travel Privileges, Car Lease Program, Paid time off, Parental Benefits and National Pension Scheme.
