Full Stack Developer

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Description

United's Digital Technology team is comprised of many talented individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. Our team designs, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.

Job overview and responsibilities

The Senior Full Stack Developer will design, build, and support modern capabilities for Crew Pay, a business-critical pay platform. This role combines hands-on application development with cloud-native engineering across AWS, event-driven services, streaming, data processing, and relational databases. The successful candidate will deliver secure, resilient, observable, and maintainable solutions while partnering with product owners, engineers, architects, quality engineering, DevOps, and business stakeholders.

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support end-to-end full stack features for the Pilot Pay product
• Build cloud-native services using AWS ECS/Fargate, Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3, and RDS
• Develop event-driven workflows that consume, process, publish, and replay business events reliably
• Create and maintain Kafka producers, consumers, topics, schemas, error-handling patterns, and operational controls
• Develop and optimize Apache Spark jobs for scalable data transformation and pay-processing workloads
• Build responsive user experiences and secure APIs that provide clear business workflows, validation, and auditability
• Engineer for resilience through idempotency, retry strategies, dead-letter handling, failure recovery, and graceful degradation
• Implement automated unit, integration, component, regression, and end-to-end tests as part of CI/CD pipelines
• Improve production readiness through logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, runbooks, and root-cause analysis
• Participate in Agile delivery practices, code reviews, technical design discussions, estimation, and continuous improvement
• Collaborate with product and business partners to translate complex pay rules into understandable, testable, and maintainable solutions
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards for architecture, code quality, security, performance, and supportability
   

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