Lead Software Development Engineer

As a Lead software development engineer, you will join a team of highly adaptable engineers responsible for rapidly learning new business domains, understanding complex technology ecosystems, and delivering high-priority business outcomes. Engineers in this organization are expected to engage across multiple domains, become productive quickly, execute prioritized initiatives, and transition seamlessly to new opportunities as business priorities evolve.

Success in this role requires strong technical depth, systems thinking, business curiosity, and the ability to navigate complex enterprise environments with numerous upstream and downstream dependencies. Candidates must be comfortable working across modern cloud-native platforms, enterprise integrations, legacy systems, APIs, and emerging AI-enabled solutions.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-based applications using AWS services.

Establish trusted partnerships with domain engineering teams and deliver solutions that align with existing engineering standards, delivery processes, and operational models.

Drive a consistent experience between Delta only and mixed metal itineraries through understanding the end-to-end ecosystem and nuances of Alliances partner travel.

Forge a new way of working through building trust, collaboration and quality of development that seamlessly integrates with other pipeline deliverables.

Build a deep and broad understanding of interdependencies between internal & external systems to architect efficient and scalable solutions. Must be able to conduct root cause analysis to generate creative solutions enabling velocity of delivery.

Implement best practices for cloud architecture, security, and performance.

Automate deployment, monitoring, and management of cloud applications.

Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code and contribute to both front-end and back-end development as a full-stack engineer.

Build and integrate AI/ML-powered features and agents into applications using AWS AI services.

Apply AI-assisted development tools to accelerate software delivery, automate repetitive tasks, and improve code quality.

Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to cloud infrastructure and applications.

Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Stay up to date with the latest AWS technologies and industry trends.