Lead Platform Engineer

ANSR is hiring for one of its clients. About American Airlines :

To Care for People on Life's Journey®. Together with our American Eagle regional partners, we offer thousands of flights daily to more than 350 destinations in more than 60 countries.

American Airlines is transforming the way it delivers technology to its customers and team members worldwide.

American’s Tech Hub in Hyderabad, India, is our latest technology office location and home to team members who drive technical innovation and engineer unrivalled digital products to best serve American’s customers and team members. With U.S. tech hubs in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona, our new team in Hyderabad, India enables better support of our 24 / 7 operation and positions American to deliver industry-leading technology solutions that create a world-class customer experience.

Intro :

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise, and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop onboard

Why you’ll love this job :

As one diverse, high-performing team dedicated to technical excellence, you will focus relentlessly on delivering unrivaled digital products that drive a more reliable and profitable airline.

The Software domain refers to the area within Information Technology that focuses on the development, deployment, management, and maintenance of software applications that support business processes and user needs. This includes development, application lifecycle management, requirement analysis, QA, security & compliance, and maintaining the applications and infrastructure.

What you’ll do :

This list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.

Writes, tests, and documents technical work products (e.G., code, scripts, processes) according to organizational standards and practices

Devotes time to raising the quality and craftsmanship of products and systems

Conducts root cause analysis to identify domain level problems and prescribes action items to mitigate

Designs self-contained systems within a team's domain, and leads implementations of significant capabilities in existing systems

Coaches team members in the execution of techniques to improve reliability, resiliency, security, and performance

Decomposes intricate and interconnected designs into implementations that can be effectively built and maintained by less experienced engineers

Anticipates trouble areas in systems under development and guides the team in instrumentation practices to ensure observability and supportability

Defines test suites and instrumentation that ensures targets for latency and availability are being consistently met in production

Leads through example by prioritizing the closure of open vulnerabilities

Evaluates potential attack surfaces in systems under development, identifies best practices to mitigate, and guides teams in their implementation

Leads team in the identification of small batches of work to delivery the highest value quickly

Ensures reuse is a first class consideration in all team implementations and is a passionate advocate for broad reusability

Formally mentors teammates and helps guide them to and along needed learning journeys

Observes their environment and identifies opportunities for introducing new approaches to problems

All you’ll need for success :

Minimum Qualifications – Education & Prior Job Experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS / MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience / training

4+ years of experience designing, developing, and implementing large-scale solutions in production environments

Preferred Qualifications – Education & Prior Job Experience :

Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS / MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience / training

Airline Industry experience

Skills, Licenses, and Certifications :

Proficiency with the following technologies :

Programming Languages : Java

Frameworks : Spring / SpringBoot, FastAPI

Front End Technologies : Angular / React

Deployment Technologies : Kubernetes, Docker

Source Control : GitHub, Azure DevOps

CICD : GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps

Data management : PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis

Integration / APIs Technologies : Kafka / Flink, REST, GraphQL

Cloud Providers such as Azure and AWS (Native Cloud Services)

IAC / Terraform / Cloudformation / Chef / Puppet

Test Automation : Selenium, TestNG, Postman, SonarQube, Cypress, JUnit / NUnit / PyTest, Cucumber, Playwright, Wiremock / Mockito / Moq

Ability to optimize solutions for performance, resiliency and reliability while maintaining an eye toward simplicity

Ability to concisely convey ideas verbally, in writing, in code, and in diagrams

Proficiency in object-oriented design techniques and principles

Proficiency in Agile methodologies, such as SCRUM

Proficiency in DevOps Toolchain methodologies, including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

Language / communication skills :

Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and written with all levels within the organization

Physical ability necessary to safely and successfully perform the essential functions of the position, with or without any legally required reasonable accommodations that do not pose an undue hardship. Note : If the Company has reason to question an employee’s physical ability to safely and / or successfully perform the position’s essential job functions, the HR team generally will engage in an interactive process to determine whether a reasonable accommodation is appropriate. HR (working with the operation) ordinarily first speaks with the team member directly and they mutually identify the physical demands of the job that are or may be impacted by the employee’s obvious or known condition. Then, if necessary, HR would request medical documentation from the team member’s treating physician or others to confirm the employee’s ability to perform those essential job functions safely and successfully.

Feel free to be yourself at American :

Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself in America.

Competencies : Caring

Collaboration

Development

Future

Results