Senior Developer

Senior Developer Pay Rate: $77.49/hour, depending on experience Contract Length: 3 Months, with a possible extension Location: Calgary, Alberta Description Our client, a major Canadian airline, is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join its Commercial Technology & Integration services team. The incumbent demonstrates a high standard of excellence, enjoys challenges, and is results driven. Highly motivated and works in an agile environment.

Provides technical expertise and oversees development of high‑quality Java software API solutions, designing and modernizing microservices, applying industry‑standard processes, and collaborating with stakeholders to develop guest‑focused applications that meet business, technical, and quality requirements. A natural coach and mentor who enjoys developing others. Responsibilities Design and develop robust, extensible, and high‑quality code that meets business, technical and quality requirements of upcoming product features as well as the maintenance of existing functionalities.

Actively participate and provide technical expertise for the creation, implementation, and ongoing evolution of design and development methodologies, coding standards, and UI style guidelines. Play an active role in the evaluation and selection of new software development tools and frameworks as we constantly optimize and modernize. Share knowledge through training via presentations/workshops that encourage development on the team.

Collaborate and engage with internal and external developers to ensure alignment of standards & best practices. Plan, lead, and track the technical aspects of the software development sustainment streams and capital projects. Lead the development team in working with business stakeholders to define and prepare functional and design specifications of new features/products.

Provide accurate estimates for development effort, complexity, and risk for software development sustainment streams and capital projects. Design and develop automated unit and integration tests for front end code that define and validate feature/product requirements. Lead the development team in working with quality assurance partners to assess the impact of code changes, to ensure the validation of requirements, and to provide timely troubleshooting and fixes to software defects.

Lead the development team in working with operational partners to ensure the supportability of new features/products and to provide timely technical support and fixes to production applications. Provide technical expertise in how to manage code and resolve code conflicts with other developers. Document system components, related interfaces and ensure complete and accurate release notes.

Demonstrate sound judgment regarding confidential and sensitive matters. Qualifications 8+ years of experience in all phases of software development with experience in developing API, microservices using app services, function and AKS using Java frameworks. Excellent interpersonal, organizational, problem‑solving, verbal, and written communication skills.

Expert level experience in developing microservices and API using Java and Spring Framework (or related). Expertise in deploying RESTful API on Azure APIM following IaC approach. Expertise in a version control system such as Subversion and GIT.

Expertise in IDE software such as Intellij or Eclipse. Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud is beneficial in this role. Knowledge of JavaScript unit testing frameworks such as Jest, Nock, Mocha, Jasmine.

Knowledge of build automation tools such as Jenkins and Azure DevOps pipelines. Practical understanding of iterative, agile development methods, processes, and techniques such as Scrum and Kanban. Having prior airline experience is an asset.

Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience. Additional Information Candidates are asked to provide 2 endorsements/references at the time of application. Ask them to provide a quick endorsement – testimonial in point form of accomplishments/value added.

EEO Statement We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities. #J-18808-Ljbffr