Software Development Engineer

Delta Air Lines is seeking a Full-Stack Software Engineer for the API Acceleration team. This role is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining enterprise API tooling, automated testing frameworks, and developer platform experiences. Operating across the full stack, you will write production-grade code for frontend interfaces, backend microservices, and cloud-native infrastructure to help internal engineering teams manage APIs securely and at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Engineering: Design and develop full-stack features for internal API products, including UI components, backend services, and cloud environments.
• Framework Automation: Build and sustain automated API testing frameworks, collection management services, and developer self-service workflows.
• Standards & Testing: Write clean, documented, and testable code adhering strictly to corporate standards and CI/CD automated testing matrices.
• API Governance: Contribute to the enterprise API Catalog features, including onboarding flows, metadata management, and consumer/producer experiences.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with security, identity, and infrastructure teams to ensure tools meet compliance thresholds, and participate in Agile ceremonies.

• Experience: 2 to 5 years of professional, hands-on software development experience.
• Frontend: Strong proficiency with TypeScript or JavaScript, and React (or a similar modern framework).
• API & Cloud: Experience building REST, GraphQL APIs and familiarity with AWS cloud services ( Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, API Gateway, AppSync).
• Tooling: Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CDK, CloudFormation, or SAM) and Git-based source control (GitLab or equivalent).
• Execution: Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and collaborative cross-team communication.
• Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.
• Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
• Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency.
• Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.

• Backend & Systems: Experience with Node.js backend development and serverless or containerized architectures (Docker, OpenShift, ECS).
• API Standards: Familiarity with OpenAPI specifications, API design patterns, and enterprise governance protocols.
• Security & Modern Tools: Knowledge of authentication patterns (OAuth, OIDC) and exposure to AI-assisted tools (GitHub Copilot, Kiro).
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• Ownership: Demonstrates clear accountability for technical deliverables and team culture.
• Agility: Continuously learns, adapts to new technologies, and values constructive feedback.
• Curiosity: Driven to understand and optimize the developer experience for thousands of internal users

Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience and Servant Leadership – every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way:

• Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives
• 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%
• New hires are eligible for up to 2-weeks of vacation. This is earned for use in the following vacation year (April 1 – March 31)
• In addition to vacation, new hires are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid personal time within a 12-month period
• 10 paid holidays per calendar year
• Birthing parents are eligible for 12-weeks of paid maternity/parental leave
• Non-birthing parents are eligible for 2-weeks of paid parental leave
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance benefits
• Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages
• Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health
• Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members
• Career development programs to achieve your long-term career goals
• World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint
• Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies
• Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together
• Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare