How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)
Role Description
We are looking for an experienced software engineer to join our Purchase team as a Senior Software Development Engineer. In this role you'll create, enhance, and support our Purchase product and domain. This role requires a passion for building and delivering applications and systems that our customers and stakeholders love. This position will contribute technical expertise to design and develop business, application, data, and infrastructure solutions, seek opportunities to optimize performance, maintain and troubleshoot application components as required, quickly resolve problems and provide timely follow-up. This development role will be responsible for developing and implementing Java/J2EE applications and implementing APIs/Microservices in AWS cloud.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborates with product team members (UX, architects, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions.
- Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, test cases, to do destructive testing to ensure adequate resiliency in production
- Strong AWS experience with background in API, Microservices development.
- Identifies unsecured code areas and implements fixes as they are discovered with or without tooling.
- Identifies, implements, and shares technical solutions that can be used across the portfolio
- Identifies product enhancements to create a better experience for the end users
- Research and/or investigate technical issues impacting the organization and recommend solutions
- Provides application support for software running in production
- Proactively reviews the Performance and Capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processing
- Triages high priority issues and outages as they arise
- Participates in learning activities around agile software development and development core practices, and mentors other team members in these best practices
- Design and build scalable, resilient solutions with strong coverage for edge cases and failure scenarios.
- Use AI-driven log analysis, anomaly detection, and observability tools to identify defects and performance issues early.
- Create reusable AI prompt templates and development patterns for consistent, scalable workflows.
- Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and promote engineering excellence and best practices within the team.
Technical Competencies
What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field is mandatory.
- Experienced in full stack Cloud-native development, RESTful APIs, and stateless microservices architectures
- At least 4-7 years of experience with Java 11 or above and the Spring framework
- Experience with JBoss, WebSphere, Tomcat application servers
- Experience in designing and implementing RESTful services using XML/JSON
- Strong AWS experience with background in API, Microservices development.
- Experience with the core AWS services like Lambdas, S3, SQS, SNS, EC2, Code Pipeline, Athena, DynamoDB, RDS. Strong understanding of core AWS services and apply best practices regarding security and scalability.
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and virtual networks from a cloud point of view
- Knowledge and/or experience in working with 12-factor methodology and understanding its benefits, and able to demonstrate appropriate patterns to other team members
- Able to independently create and maintain automation test jobs and execute as part of a CI/CD pipeline.
- Experience of working in distributed agile teams using agile frameworks such as SCRUM , SAFe, XP etc.
- Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices; with tools such as Git/Gitlab, Jira/VersionOne/Agility, Jenkins/Tekton, Gradle, Ansible
- Knowledge and/or experience with messaging solutions such as ActiveMQ or Kafka.
- Ability to clearly communicate and coordinate with peers, product owners, and cross functional teams and design a relevant and time to market solution.
- Must have the ability to listen to customers and colleagues; convey ideas effectively; prepare written documentation
- Ability to quickly adapt to new tools and evolving technologies.
- Proactive in nature with customer satisfaction as a primary goal
- Embraces Diverse people, thinking and styles
- Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority
- Design Thinking
- Ensure code quality and documentation for supporting application post deployment.
Behavioral Competencies
- Ability to produce high quality results, work in a collaborative environment by embracing diverse perspectives and with a solution-based approach.
- Adapt communication clearly and concisely based on team dynamics and expresses thoughts & ideas effectively.
- Ability to engage effectively with peers and stakeholders to build trust and reliable working relationships.
- Ability to understand business processes, implement innovative solutions, guide juniors on continuous improvement by constantly updating oneself on current technology & trends.
- Inquisitive to understand customer and business expectations while creating value addition on technical solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Experience with eCommerce application.
- Airline, or Transportation industry experience.
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.
