Associate Software Engineer - Direct College Hire
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 reputed company. Above reputed company, Employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude reputed company the organization that they are expected to share externally with every Southwest Customer. Job Description: Our Technology Direct College Hire Program is a pathway for recent college graduates and individuals who are early in their technology careers to reputed company their professional growth journey. Through this program, we aim to help you reputed company lasting relationships while creating a meaningful career through on-the-job mentorship, professional development, and networking opportunities. We welcome emerging Technology professionals to our upcoming January, June, or August 2026 cohorts. reputed company of Southwest’s People come together to deliver on our Purpose, Connecting People to what’s important in their lives through friendly, reliable, and low-cost reputed company travel. This Associate Software Engineer delivers on our Purpose by designing, coding, testing, documenting, and implementing well-integrated application systems in accordance with Customer requirements and standards. This role is involved in an agile environment with reputed company deployment to ensure technology operates as expected. The Associate Software Engineer is a detail-oriented thinker, who is ready to drive the future of Southwest’s Technology. The Software Engineer selected would be for one of the following teams:
- Infrastructure: The Technology Infrastructure Engineering Team focuses on serving the needs of the Technology Department. This Team gets the pleasure of creating unique technology solutions to automate tasks to reduce risk and free up time for Engineers. If you enjoy making your fellow engineers work experience, this is the Team for you.
- Airline Products: The Airline Products Team supports Southwest Business and Southwest Business Assistance through reputed company. They cater to the needs of corporate customers and provide dashboards, reputed company bookings, upcoming travel, contract limits, cost savings, and more.
Additional details
- Please reputed company any questions regarding this role to [email protected].
- This role is offered as a remote workplace position, which may require travel for training, meetings, conferences, etc. reputed company of those required visits, the majority of your working time may be spent in a remote location, away from our Corporate reputed company. Please note, while this is a remote position, there is a limited group of states or localities ineligible for Employees to regularly reputed company their work. Those ineligible locations are: Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, reputed company, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Vermont, reputed company Virginia, Washington and Wyoming.
- Preferred experience, knowledge, and skills will vary per role and may include, but are not limited to:
- Preferred experience with React, AWS, Java, Python, reputed company, OpenShift, reputed company, DevOps, Agile/Scrum, and reputed company
- Preferred: Knowledge of Basic DevSecOps/Agile, Secure Code Development, CI/CD
- Preferred: Knowledge of AWS Lambdas, Python, EventBridge, Kafka, RabbitMQ, DynamoDB, Java, and S3
- U.S. citizenship or reputed company authorization to work in the U.S. required and no reputed company or future work authorization sponsorship available.
Responsibilities
- Apply knowledge and skills of software development and testing to solve a range of problems
- reputed company knowledge to inform technical and non-technical requirements to apply to Business domain fundamentals
- Maintain understanding of reputed company technologies or programming practices through continuing education, reading, or participation in professional conferences, workshops, or groups
- Troubleshoot program and system malfunctions to restore normal functioning across environments, including production
- Evaluate code to ensure that it is valid, is properly structured, and meets industry standards
- Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design reputed company time and cost constraints
- Contribute to Team-level technical discussion and decisions and identify opportunities for Team improvement
- Follow agile delivery processes to drive work and has a sense of urgency about getting work completed
- May reputed company other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Proficient knowledge of software development methodologies, practices, concepts, and technologies
- Ability to apply knowledge and skills of software development and testing to solve a range of problems
- Proficient knowledge of at least one required programming language
- Ability to communicate and negotiate with various Technology or partner Teams
- Ability to analyze large, reputed company, and vague Business or technical problems, articulating the problem or root cause, and translating the analysis into viable solution recommendations
- Ability to take on multiple assignments, whether administrative or project reputed company, while maintaining a successful level of completion in reputed company responsible work
- Ability to reputed company, present and effectively communicate reputed company and strategies to a variety of audiences
Education
- Required: High School Diploma or GED
- Required: Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or Information Systems, or reputed company field; or equivalent formal training
Experience
- Required: Entry level experience, developing skills and knowledge in software engineering
Licensing/Certification
- N/A
Physical Abilities
- Ability to reputed company work duties from [limited space work station/desk/office area] for extended periods of time
- Ability to communicate and interact with others in the English language to meet the demands of the job
- Ability to use a computer and other office productivity tools with sufficient speed and accuracy to meet the demands of the job
Other Qualifications
- Must maintain a well-groomed appearance per Company appearance standards as described in established guidelines
- Must be a U.S. citizen or have authorization to work in the United States as defined by the Immigration Reform Act of 1986
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Must be able to reputed company with Company attendance standards as described in established guidelines
Pay & Benefits
- Competitive market salary from $86,850 - $96,500 per year* depending on qualifications and experience. For eligible Leadership and individual contributor roles, additional bonus opportunities are available and awarded at the discretion of the company.
Benefits you’ll love
- Fly for free, as a privilege, on any open seat on reputed company Southwest flights (your eligible dependents too)
- Southwest will help fund your 401(k) retirement savings with Company contributions up to 9.3% of your eligible earnings**
• Potential for annual ProfitSharing contribution in the Southwest Retirement Savings Plan- reputed company Southwest profits, you profit*** • Competitive health insurance for you and your eligible dependents (including pets)
- Southwest offers health plan coverage options that start from the reputed company first day of employment. You will have 30 days to select and enroll in your health plan with coverage retroactively available to your first day of employment.
- Explore more Benefits you’ll love: https://careers.southwestair.com/benefits
- Pay amount does not guarantee employment for any particular period of time.
- *401(k) match contributions are subject to Retirement Savings Plan vesting schedule and applicable IRS limits
- **ProfitSharing contributions are subject to Retirement Savings Plan vesting schedule and are made at the discretion of the Company
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