Sr Software Engineer - Adobe Fusion

Department

Technology

Our Company Promise

We are committed to provide our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Creativity and innovation are encouraged for improving the effectiveness of Southwest Airlines. Above all, Employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude within the organization that they are expected to share externally with every Southwest Customer.

Job Description

About Us

At Southwest Airlines, we believe that flying should feel like freedom. For over 50 years, we've been connecting people to what matters most with low fares, legendary hospitality, and a heart for service. Our culture is built on the principles of fun, friendliness, and family, making us one of the most admired workplaces in the world.

If you're passionate about making a difference, love working in a fast-paced environment, and want to help millions of travelers reach their destinations with a smile, Southwest Airlines is the place for you. Here, your career can truly take flight.

Job Summary

Advanced experience in designing, writing program code, testing, documenting, and implementing functionally appropriate, technically sound, and well-integrated application systems in accordance with Customer requirements, organizational methodologies, and standards. Identifies and prevents production problems and implement immediate resolution efforts across technology areas. Mentoring Software Engineers, holistic vision of organization and impact, focusing on “shift left” activities.

Responsibilities

Drive the technical direction and feature roadmap of large-scale cloud systems

Serve as a technical lead contributing to and directing the efforts of development teams, including internal and external team members

Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions

Drives detailed definition of feature requirements through discussions with product managers and customers

Supports continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and new technologies

Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming

Evaluates code to ensure that it is valid, is properly structured, meets industry standards, and is compatible with browsers, devices, or operating systems

Mentor Software Engineers to allow for skill/knowledge development through advice, coaching, and training opportunities

Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations

May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

AEM Assets / Digital Asset Management (DAM)

Advanced experience in software development and application design

Strong programming experience in at least one programming language (Java preferred)

Experience with cloud-based applications / cloud platforms

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Advanced knowledge of software development methodologies, practices, concepts, and technologies obtained through formal training and / or work experience

Proactively shares knowledge and skills of software development and testing to solve a range of problems

Advanced knowledge of at least one required programming language

Excellent partnering, communication, negotiation skills, and execution in working with various Technology or partner Teams

Ability to articulate (verbally / visually) ideas, approach, concepts, options, risk, impact, and provides guidance to technical, non-technical, and Leadership audiences

Ability to lead multiple assignments, whether administrative or project related, while maintaining a successful level of completion in all responsible work

Ability to mentor others

Ability to lead ideating, presentations, mentoring and group-thinking sessions

Ability to influence without authority

AEM Assets / Adobe Experience Manager

Adobe Experience Cloud ecosystem

AEM Sites experience

AEM Cloud Service / AEM as a Cloud Service

Experience with Workfront / Workfront Fusion

Adobe Experience Manager APIs and integrations

REST / GraphQL APIs

Microservices architecture

CI/CD and DevOps

AWS / Azure / GCP cloud experience

Docker / Kubernetes

Automated unit, integration, and functional testing

Observability, monitoring, and logging

Experience with event-driven architectures

Agile / SAFe / Scrum

Education

• Required: Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field and/or equivalent formal training

Experience

• Required: Advanced-level experience, seasoned and specialized knowledge in:
• Software development and methodologies
• 5-7 years of relevant work-related experience
• Preferred Experience
• Knowledge of headless/headful CMS and content delivery APIs.
• Experience with performance optimization and caching strategies.
• Strong understanding of how content moves across creation, orchestration, publishing, activation, and downstream channels.
• Experience with enterprise content workflow automation and multiplatform integrations.

Other Qualifications

• Must meet confidentiality expectations as to confidential, proprietary and sensitive Company information
• Ability to work extended hours as needed

Why This Role

• Engineer scalable content experiences that reduce manual work and improve the Content Supply Chain.
• Solve complex cross-platform workflow challenges across Adobe, CMS, APIs, publishing systems, and downstream experiences.
• Create reusable automation and integrations that connect content processes end to end.

Southwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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