Senior Full Stack Developer - Java, Angular at United Airlines in Chicago, IL

Job 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 a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } 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 a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } Technical environment Cloud and compute: AWS ECS/Fargate and Lambda Messaging and events: Kafka, SQS, and SNS Data and storage: S3, RDS, Aurora, and SQL Data processing: Apache Spark and EMR Application development: Microservices, APIs, and modern web user interfaces Engineering: CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, and observability AI-enabled delivery: AI coding assistants, agents, and agentic workflows Success in this role Delivers reliable features that improve pay-processing accuracy, transparency, and operational efficiency Reduces production risk through strong engineering controls, automated validation, and actionable observability Improves delivery speed and code quality through reusable patterns, automation, and responsible use of AI-assisted engineering Takes ownership from design through production support and continuously improves the product and engineering system What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications): a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience 4+ years of professional software development experience, including ownership of production applications Strong back-end development experience using Java, Python, or a comparable enterprise language and framework Front-end development experience using a modern JavaScript or TypeScript framework such