Principal Software Engineer

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 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, develops and supports our products top-to-bottom, and ships 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 with quality.

• 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 assigned through clean coding practices 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.

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#, javascript, React, etc.) as well as other general technologies (REST, SOAP, GIT, etc.)
  • Utilizing appropriate design patterns to create clean, maintainable, and performant code.
  • Familiarization with Microsoft Tools & Development Technologies
  • Ability to multi-task between activities for multiple projects
• 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.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to drive new ideas and technologies to communities of developers.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum age of 18.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred

• Experience in enterprise level high availability and scalable iOS solutions.
• Experience and expert understanding for iOS Design patterns.
• Experience testing and debugging in iOS solutions.
• Experience writing unit tests and automation tests for iOS solutions using XCTest, Appium.
• Proven delivery of highly optimized and high performance iOS solutions
• Experience working on iOS solutions using UIKit, SwiftUI, Appium.
• Experience working on iOS Frameworks like dynamic shared libraries, shareable UI components, Combine.
• Comfortable and knowledgeable within Xcode.
• Strong understanding of common iOS architectures (MVC, MVVM).
• Experience making network requests with Codable and Async/Await.
• Programmatic Constraints in UIKit.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience utilizing OO principles, clean code to solve complex problems.
• Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to collaborate with a variety of team members.
• Demonstrated passion for continuous learning and development.

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

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/Horizon employees. Alaska/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 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 & Horizon Air
• Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits
• Generous 401k match program
• Quarterly and annual bonus plans
• Generous holiday and paid time off
   

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

Equal Employment Opportunity
We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action (AA) employer that is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all qualified applicants and employees and do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information (including family medical history), political views or activity, or other legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We may use your information to maintain the safety and security of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, its employees, and others as required or permitted by law. People of color, women, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Government Contractor & Department of Transportation (DOT) Regulations

Alaska 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/Horizon Air and any employment offer will be withdrawn.