Senior Software Engineer - UI

Senior Software Engineer - UI

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This role can sit in Atlanta, GA or Minneapolis, MN

About the Company

Delta Air Lines is one of the world's largest global airlines, helping more than 180 million travelers get to the places they want to go to each year. It is a leader in products, services, innovation, reliability, and customer experience in the aviation industry. In 2018, Delta was named to Fortune's top 50 Most Admired Companies in addition to being named the most admired airline for the seventh time in eight years. Additionally, Delta has ranked No.1 in the Business Travel News Annual Airline survey for an unprecedented seven consecutive years. With an industry-leading global network, Delta and the Delta Connection carriers offer service to 309 destinations in 53 countries on six continents.

About Delta Global Technology Hub

Delta has fast emerged as a customer-oriented, innovation-led, technology-driven business. The Global Technology Hub will contribute directly to these objectives. It is expected to sustain our long-term aspirations of delivering niche, IP-intensive, high-value, and innovative solutions. It will align into the IT organization of Delta - an integral part of our transformation agenda, working seamlessly with business units in the US to create memorable experiences for customers.

About the Function

Delta.com is the 4th largest ecommerce property in the US, and is responsible for millions of customer interactions a day. As a member of the Channel Content and UI team, you will be engineering the experience closest to our customer, and able to see the change you impact within days and weeks of the change. As part of this team, you will create a rich and satisfying experience that results in a frictionless travel experience. Join one of the world's top airlines at the cutting edge of customer facing technology for delta.com!

Why Join?

• At Delta Air Lines, technology is a key differentiator of services. At the hub, you get the opportunity to work on projects with a significant impact on business outcomes and customer experience.
• Steepen your learning curve 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
• Build Collaborate with research, innovation & IP co-development partners
• Immerse yourself in an employee-centric culture
• Develop deep and broad business acumen on airline operations while retaining focus on cutting-edge IT solutions.
• Experience working in global product development ecosystem (through travel & distributed agile delivery)
• Avail a full range of benefits that support you and your family: Insurance, Commute, Meals, and Retirement.

• Leading the technical scrum team and implementing hands-on the front ends associated with the technical designs for product/project teams
• Leading technical efforts in the scrum team, including in the creation of quality in our delivery
• Ensuring the team develops with quality measuring via clean pipelines, and 90%+ coverage
• Mentoring and elevating your teammates to be stronger engineers by staying ahead with technology evolution and educating the team
• Transforming business requirements into application architectures
• Determining feasibility & scalability of front end solutions, interacting with business and product owners in order to define technical solutions for customer problems
• Production issue triage, management, and prevention as needed
• Technical definition and implementation for analytics, error logging/tracking, and other key functional customer interactions on delta.com
• UI Design reviews for feasibility, tech design, and impact analysis
• Develop sustainable, accessibility compliant solutions
• Long term technical debt resolutions, debt prevention & code reviews
• Analysis and implementation of Performance/Stability/Reliability/Architecture initiatives
• Research & Development of POCs & innovative new ideas for customer interactions with Delta
• Assisting in defining alternate solutions for the business problems and providing estimates for potential new workstreams
• Creating a learning culture by establishing, sharing, and enforcing best practices and lessons learned

• 5+ years of Experience
• Expert level development skills in HTML5, JS and CSS
• Javascript versions ES2015/ES6 and Typescript - a superset of ES2015
• Node and NPM
• Javascript frameworks
• AngularJS v4+
• Express JS
• jQuery
• UI testing, E2E testing
• Jasmine
• Karma
• Protractor
• PhantomJS
• Jest
• Cypress
• Application bundlers
• Webpack
• (optional) SystemJS
• Task runners
• Grunt, Gulp, etc
• CSS 3/Frameworks
• Bootstrap v3/v4
• Foundation CSS
• SaaS
• Expertise in Web Components
• Expertise in CI servers and Continuous Integration and Delivery, eg: Jenkins
• Experience with Docker & Kubernetes
• Error tracking libraries, eg: TrackJS
• Focus on Test Driven Development
• Quality forward development practices, with automation at forefront for continuous quality
• Performant sites focused on optimal time to interact for end consumers, and continuous focus on improvement of that
• Secure sites that adhere to best practices for information security
• Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered for U.S.-based job, if not currently employed by Delta Air Lines, Inc.

• Ability to write, execute and visualize test results
• Code organization and bundling for coherent packaging
• Continuous improvement journey with logging and error tracking/handling
• Performance optimization, dynamic loading and caching at significant scale
• UI Grids, Responsive Web Design, using Figma to interact with visual design