About the role
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. 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
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 d…
