iOS Developer, IT Applications - Scaleneworks

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Section 1 - Overview
American Airlines is a commercial airline providing passenger and cargo transportation throughout North America, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. The following describes the essential job functions, job qualifications, traditional physical demands and other requirements of the job. While not an exhaustive description, it is intended to accurately reflect the current job. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it deems it appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations. Management will consider providing reasonable accommodations as necessary to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act or other applicable federal, state or local laws. Reasonable accommodations that facilitate successful performance of all essential job functions will not impact an individual s paygrade or level.
Department Overview:
This job is a member of the Information Technology Team, within the Information Technology Division.


Section 2 - General Job Description
This position is a member of the Pilot Technology Team within the Information Technology Division. This position will be responsible for leveraging cutting edge technology to solve business problems at American Airlines by participating in all phases of the development process from inception through transition, advocating the agile process and test-driven development, using Dev-ops oriented development tools and techniques to analyze, model, design, construct, test and deploy reusable objects, and making the codebase a better place to live and work.

Section 3 - Job Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications - Education & Prior Job Experience
Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
5 years of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience, using ITIL, Agile, XP, or similar methodologies

Preferred Qualifications Education & Prior Job Experience
Master s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
3+ years of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience, using ITIL, Agile, XP, or similar methodologies
3+ years full stack development experience
Airline Industry experience, including business systems and technology

Skills, Licenses & Certifications
Proficiency in Swift and it s design patterns
Deep understanding of UIKit, Cocoa design patterns
Deep understanding of iOS memory management
Deep understanding of Grand Central Dispatch and threading
Experience with advanced UI and Auto Layout, animations & transitions using UIKit, Core Graphics, Core Animation
Experience working with and consuming JSON and REST data contracts
Understanding of software design patterns, SOLID, and clean architecture
Understanding of functional and object-oriented programming patterns
General backend system knowledge of: HTTP, APIs, DBs, Micro Service and etc.
Experience integrating third-party SDKs, either manually or using Cocoa Pods
Deep understanding of Core Data and offline storage
Deep understanding of unit testing using XCTest
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools {{such as Git, Mercurial or SVN}}
Familiarity with CI/CD best practices and tools
Physical Abilities
Physical ability necessary to safely and successfully perform the essential functions of the position, with or without any legally required reasonably accommodations that do not pose an undue hardship. Note: If the Company has reason to question an employee s physical ability to safely and/or successfully perform the position s essential job functions, the HR team generally will engage in an interactive process to determine whether a reasonable accommodation is appropriate. HR (working with the operation) ordinarily first speaks with the employee directly and they mutually identify the physical demands of the job that are or may be impacted by the employee s obvious or known condition. Then, if necessary, HR would request medical documentation from the employee s treating physician or others to confirm the employee s ability to perform those essential job functions safely and successfully.

Section 4 - Essential Job Functions
As noted above, this list is intended to accurately reflect the current job but there may be additional essential (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it deems it appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.
Essential Job Functions:
Collaborates with leaders, business analysts, project managers, IT architects, technical leads and other developers, along with internal customers, to understand needs and develop solutions according to business requirements
Maintains and enhances existing enterprise services, applications, and platforms using domain driven design and test-driven development
Troubleshoots and debugs complex issues; identifies and implements solutions
Creates detailed project specifications, requirements, and estimates
Researches and implements new technologies to enhance current processes, security, and performance
Supports the development of coding standards and adhere to best practices and security guidelines
Works closely with software architects and technical leads to ensure decisions meet long-term enterprise growth needs