Developer/Sr Developer, IT Applications
American Airlines · Fort Worth, TX
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Jul 24, 2026
Fort Worth, TX
Jul 27, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A mid-level full-stack software developer role focused on building, maintaining, and improving large-scale enterprise applications across the full development lifecycle. The work involves Java-based back-end services, front-end frameworks, cloud and DevOps tooling, and database work, following agile and test-driven practices. Best suited to someone with solid Java/J2EE experience and comfort across a broad modern web stack.
Mid level · 3+ years · Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 190 people in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 50–250
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $136,221 (middle half $107,984–$167,709).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The posting lists no explicit job location beyond American Airlines' headquarters context (DFW). The CBSA has been inferred as Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX.
The minimum degree requirement is a Bachelor's in a technical field, but the posting explicitly accepts 'equivalent experience/training' as a substitute, so no hard degree gate is set.
The 3-year SDLC experience minimum is the hard gate from the required qualifications; the 5-year figure appears only under Preferred Qualifications.
The entire 'Skills, Licenses & Certifications' section is presented as a single undifferentiated block under the required qualifications heading, so all named technologies in that section are treated as required. This is an unusually long required skills list — it reflects the posting's own structure.
Hygieia, Fortify on Demand, and Tivoli Scheduler appear in the same skills block but are niche/ancillary tools; they are marked preferred given their peripheral nature relative to the core stack, though the section placement is ambiguous.
The posting contains a typo: 'Gradel' has been normalized to Gradle, and 'Logstaash' to Logstash.
tcServer is a variant of Tomcat (Pivotal tc Server) and is captured under the Tomcat skill rather than as a separate entry.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
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