Senior Developer - Information Technology

Company: United Airlines
Location: Chicago
Posted on: June 2, 2025

Job Description:

Achieving our goals starts with supporting yours. Grow your career, access top-tier health and wellness benefits, build lasting connections with your team and our customers, and travel the world using our extensive route network.

Come join us to create what's next. Let's define tomorrow, together.

DescriptionUnited's Digital Technology team designs, develops, and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.Find your future at United! We're reinventing what our industry looks like, and what an airline can be - from the planes we fly to the people who fly them. When you join us, you're joining a global team of 100,000+ connected by a shared passion with a wide spectrum of experience and skills to lead the way forward.

Achieving our ambitions starts with supporting yours. Evolve your career and find your next opportunity. Get the care you need with industry-leading health plans and best-in-class programs to support your emotional, physical, and financial wellness. Expand your horizons with travel across the world's biggest route network. Connect outside your team through employee-led Business Resource Groups.

Create what's next with us. Let's define tomorrow together.Job overview and responsibilitiesUnited Airlines' Customer Technology Platform department partners with business and technology leaders across the company to create services and applications across key airline functionalities such as Booking, Check-in, Payment, Reservation systems and Operational Systems to help support the commercial and digital Channels of United.As a senior software developer, you will be responsible for the development of mission critical applications, while working with a team of developers. You will design, develop, document, test and debug new and existing applications. Additionally, as a senior developer, you will build these applications with a focus on delivering cloud-based solutions. The individual will use leading edge technologies and enterprise grade integration software daily. You will be relied upon to help take this team to the next level from a technological standpoint.

• Participate in full development life cycle including requirements analysis and design
• Serve as technical expert on development projects
• Write technical specifications based on conceptual design and stated business requirements
• Support, maintain, and document software functionality
• Identify and evaluate new technologies for implementation
• Analyze code to find causes of errors and revise programs as needed
• Participate in software design meetings and analyze user needs to determine technical requirements
• Consult with end user to prototype, refine, test, and debug programs to meet needs
• Recognized as expert in field, knowledgeable of emerging trends and industry practices
• Conducts the most complex and vital work critical to the organization
• Works without supervision with complete latitude for independent judgment
• May mentor less experienced peers and display leadership as neededThis position is offered on local terms and conditions. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded. This position is for
  United Airlines Business Services Pvt. Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of United Airlines Inc.QualificationsWhat's needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering,
  • Management Information Systems and/or equivalent work experience
  • Must be able to lead, own deliverables and mentor.
  • 10+ years of experience in design, development, documenting, testing, and debugging of new and existing
  • software systems and/or applications for market sale or large-scale proprietary software for internal use
  • Excellent knowledge of object-oriented systems design and application development
  • Strong knowledge of .Net web services, SQL and Design Patterns
  • Experience in Messaging, EAI, CEP and In-memory Distributed Caching platforms (like CouchBase)
  • Proficiency in Software Development best practices such as - Continuous Integration, Unit/Integration testing, Code reviews
  • About 4 weeks of travel to US in a year may be needed
  • Must be legally authorized to work in India for any employer without sponsorship
  • Must be fluent in English (written and spoken)
  • Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
  • Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the positionWhat will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):
    • Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems
    • Airlines industry experience
    • Experience with Functional Programming / Realtime data processing
    • Low latency applications
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