Senior Developer Full-time Job

Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America. Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.

Do you enjoy developing cloud-based solutions to complex problems? Air Canada Digital Development teams are building a fast-moving development team to develop engaging web and mobile applications. This is a great opportunity for a results-oriented software developer to analyze and build leading-edge solutions. The candidate should be self-driven, highly motivated, innovative, and ready to deliver with our agile development teams.  

The Senior Developer will report to the Manager, Digital Development. 

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and robust full-stack applications using Angular, React, Java, C#, .NET, JavaScript, and other relevant technologies. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, define project scope, and establish technical specifications with a particular emphasis on security and quality considerations. 
• Lead the applications development, providing technical guidance, and support throughout the software development life cycle. 
• Conduct regular code reviews, ensuring adherence to secure coding practices, coding standards, and quality guidelines, including accessibility. 
• Identify and resolve technical challenges, bugs, and performance issues in a timely manner. 
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends, technologies, and frameworks related to software security, and recommend their adoption as appropriate. 
• Collaborate with product owners, designers, and other stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into secure and high-quality technical solutions. 
• Drive the implementation of secure development practices, including secure authentication and authorization mechanisms, data encryption, and secure communication protocols. 
• Ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of the software applications by leveraging cloud platforms like Azure and AWS. 
• Participate in agile development processes, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospective meetings. 
• Actively contribute to the improvement of development processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance team efficiency, security, and software quality. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent. 
• 6+ years of full-stack software development experience and strong expertise using Angular, React, Java, C#, .NET, and Azure/AWS DevOps in an Agile development environment. 
• Substantial web and mobile application development experience. 
• Very comfortable developing in an Agile environment, using Git and Azure/AWS Devops. 
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery/Deployment experience. 
• Real-world experience with mission-critical enterprise REST APIs. 
• Solid understanding of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices. 
• Experience with database technologies such as SQL Server, MySQL, or MongoDB. 
• Comfortable analyzing network traffic using Fiddler/Postman/Wireshark etc.   
• Ability to work effectively under pressure in rapidly changing environments or uncertain conditions. 
• Demonstrates openness and willingness to adapt to new ways of doing things.  
• Takes responsibility for the results and actively participates in the future direction of the organization. 
• Demonstrates concern for satisfying external and/or internal customers. 
• Focuses on the accomplishment of the team’s and unit’s work; sets challenging goals and meets or exceeds goals. 
• Ability and desire to work cooperatively with others on a team in person and/or remotely.  
• Approaches a problem by using a logical, systematic, and sequential approach. 
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a focus on delivering high-quality software solutions. 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Conditions of Employment:

• Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest, at the time any offer of employment is made and seeking any required work permits/visas or other authorizations which may be required is the sole responsibility of the candidates applying for this position.

Linguistic Requirements

Based on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.

Diversity and Inclusion

Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.

As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.

Air Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.

Air Canada is Canada's largest airline, the country's flag carrier and a founding member of Star Alliance, and provides direct service to six continents. It is the only international network carrier in North America to receive a Four-Star ranking from Skytrax.