Investing in People
We provide clear objectives, a positive work environment, fair compensation and work-life balance. We have fun, promote teamwork and support each other. We value and empower each employee.
Why Work at Flyht
9/80 work week We work 80 hours over 9 days with every other Friday off, allowing employees more weekend time with their families and to enjoy hobbies, social activities, or simple relaxation.
Flexible schedule with core hours Core hours to ensure that you can work around your schedule – whether it’s 8am daycare drop offs or you’re super productive in the morning
Great Place to Work Initiative Active focus on making improvements – such as implementing a Career Development Program, or instituting a fully funded and active Social Committee
Comprehensive benefits package The standards – health, dental, short term and long-term disability, life insurance – as well as a retirement savings matching program, Personal Time Off, and 120 paid vacation hours
I feel heard and part of an integral team. It’s a great place to try new things and everyone is always open to new ideas. - Megan Smith
I continue to foster personal relationships with my coworkers and customers that reach far beyond the office environment. - Derek Taylor
I truly enjoy going in to work every day – the work is fulfilling and challenging, the people are genuine and supportive. - Tina Boudreau
Current Openings
Manager, Enterprise Software Development
Calgary, AB
Do you want to build a strong agile culture throughout the organization? Do you thrive on mentoring team members to think creatively, be innovative, and to solve problems? What about leading a team that is writing code to create leading edge solutions that will revolutionise the airline industry taking real-time aircraft data and translating it into analytics and actionable intelligence? If you are a motivating coach and leader with a solution driven approach, enjoy being part of a team that challenges each other, and have had proven success working well with all stakeholders, this opportunity is for you! This role will be working closely with the scrum leader to foster an agile culture and ensure the integrity and quality of Flyht’s code architecture.
Now, more than ever, airlines need leading edge solutions to operate efficiently and drive profits. Our team of professionals work closely with airline customers to develop solutions that are hosted on IBM and AWS cloud platforms.
Flyht has recently moved into a newly renovated space encompassing an amazing 360° view of the city, Nose Hill park and the Rocky Mountains. If you like awesome coffee, free and assigned parking, height adjustable workstations, and eating your lunch while looking at the mountains, keep reading and hit apply!
Who is Flyht?
We are Pioneers — Flyht has been working with some of the best known Airlines for over 20+ years. We are pioneers in Satellite Communications and Aviation Data Transfer & Delivery. We have a proven track record in Operational Efficiency, Communications, Data Management and Safety.
Spearheading innovation — Actionable Intelligence is driving instructions to people, machines, and processes to improve profit potential. It allows all assets & systems to apply derived rules to change an action to save time, money, resources a learning in order to define better ways to accomplish all tasks.
How we do it — we mitigate the risks involved through our Technology Partner Program by implementing an Agile Design Process with highly-knowledgeable engineers and support staff dedicated to creating custom aerospace solutions.
What we offer
9/80 work week — we work 80 hours over 9 days with every other Friday off, allowing employees more weekend time with their families and to enjoy hobbies, social activities, or simple relaxation.
Great Place to Work Initiative — active focus on making improvements, such as implementing a Career Development Program, or instituting a fully funded and active Social Committee.
Flexible schedule with core hours — core hours to ensure that you can work around your schedule – whether it is 8am daycare drop offs or you’re super productive in the morning.
Comprehensive benefits package — health, dental, short term and long-term disability, life insurance – as well as a retirement savings matching program, Personal Time Off, and 120 paid vacation hours.
What you’ll do
- Work to optimize teams and individuals to deliver the best quality software to further company goals
- Provide vision, oversight, mentorship, and support to the software engineering team while creating an enjoyable work environment
- Ensure that the team is sufficiently challenged to promote meaningful engagement and employee satisfaction
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement
- As a working manager software development may be required
- Report on data metrics and motivate the team to improve results with the goal of increasing both internal and external customer satisfaction
- Provide work estimates for future programs
- Maintain compliance with AS9100 certification requirements
- Manage relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including employees, clients, suppliers, and senior leadership
- All aspects of software testing including test automation
- Develop and implement initial and recurrent training program
- Support to the 24/7 System Administration and Dev Ops team to maintain level 3 support of FLYHT’s products and services
- After hours on-call support as required
We’re looking for
- Managing Agile/Scrum development team
- Cloud hosted (IBM & AWS) and Java based enterprise development projects
- Experience with messaging frameworks and relational database management system
- AWS Certified and IBM experience (Architect, Dev, SysOps)
- Completion of a B. Sc. In Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline
- 3+ years of experience as a software development leader
- 4+ years of hands on experience as a software developer
- Experience in developing long-term strategies and influencing leadership decisions
- Hands on experience with professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Excellent organizational, prioritization, time management and communication skills
- Experience with automated software deployment, system redundancies and complete failover systems
- 4+ years of experience in forecasting, budgeting, and cost control
- Previous experience in the following is considered an asset: NoSQL database like Mongo or Cassandra, Jade, Javascript, Angular, React, Velocity template, Maven, CSS processing engine like Saas or LESS, Amazon Web Services (or Azure, Google Cloud), IBM Cloud, DB2/DB3, Frontend build tools like Grunt, Webpack or Gulp, Git, Stash, Jenkins, JIRA, jQuery, network protocol such as WebSocket, HTTP and HTTPS, frontend/backend design patterns like MVC, MVVM
- Knowledge of aeronautic industry an asset
- Knowledge of avionic software development guidelines (DO-178, DO-278) an asset
- Experience with real time data an asset
All resumes will be retained for the duration of the recruit only; all resumes will be destroyed immediately following candidate selection. Personal information is reviewed by senior managers only, kept in strict confidence and used only for the purposes of scheduling interviews. By forwarding your resume and/or application for the position, you signify your understanding and acceptance of these terms.
Senior Full Stack Developer
Calgary, AB
Do you want to create leading edge solutions that will revolutionise the airline industry? What about writing code taking real-time aircraft data and translating it into analytics and actionable intelligence for the aerospace industry? If you are a passionate and experienced Senior Full Stack Developer and enjoy being part of an Agile/Scrum team, challenging each other to achieve create innovative solutions, this opportunity is for you!
Now, more than ever, airlines need leading edge solutions to operate efficiently and drive profits. Our team of professionals work closely with airline customers to develop solutions that are hosted on IBM and AWS cloud platforms.
Flyht has recently moved into a newly renovated space encompassing an amazing 360° view of the city, Nose Hill park and the Rocky Mountains. If you like awesome coffee, free and assigned parking, height adjustable workstations, and eating your lunch while looking at the mountains, keep reading and hit apply!
Who is Flyht?
We are Pioneers— Flyht has been working with some of the best known Airlines for over 20+ years. We are pioneers in Satellite Communications and Aviation Data Transfer & Delivery. We have a proven track record in Operational Efficiency, Communications, Data Management and Safety.
Spearheading innovation — Actionable Intelligence is driving instructions to people, machines, and processes to improve profit potential. It allows all assets & systems to apply derived rules to change an action to save time, money, resources a learning in order to define better ways to accomplish all tasks.
How we do it — we mitigate the risks involved through our Technology Partner Program by implementing an Agile Design Process with highly-knowledgeable engineers and support staff dedicated to creating custom aerospace solutions.
What we offer
9/80 work week — we work 80 hours over 9 days with every other Friday off, allowing employees more weekend time with their families and to enjoy hobbies, social activities, or simple relaxation.
Great Place to Work Initiative — active focus on making improvements, such as implementing a Career Development Program, or instituting a fully funded and active Social Committee.
Flexible schedule with core hours — core hours to ensure that you can work around your schedule – whether it is 8am daycare drop offs or you’re super productive in the morning.
Comprehensive benefits package — health, dental, short term and long-term disability, life insurance – as well as a retirement savings matching program, Personal Time Off, and 120 paid vacation hours.
What you’ll do
- Be a technology advocate and share expertise with other team members
- Function as in-house consultant/expert for resolution of complex technical issues. Research emerging trends/best practices and determine implications of proposed solutions on meeting business goals
- Support the team with critical thinking and help breakdown the work required to achieve the sprint goal
- Think through challenging and interesting problems and solve them with the team
- Gain deep understanding of existing systems and develop a strategy to reduce the operating and support cost
- Employ agile development practices including test and deployment automation as well as Continuous Integration to improve overall execution speed and product quality
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Perform code reviews, unit testing, and system testing as needed for other developers’ efforts
We’re looking for
- A minimum of 5 years of full stack development experience
- Hands on experience with professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Java (minimum 4 years)
- Expertise in Agile/Scrum development process
- Strong problem-solving skills with a pragmatic approach
- Strong experience in data structure and algorithm
- Previous experience in responsive web design
- Hands on experience with JPA providers like EclipseLink or Hibernate
- Experience with writing complex SQL queries
- Good understanding of network protocol such as WebSocket, HTTP and HTTPS
- Good understanding of SOA and microservice architecture
- Hands on experience with frontend/backend design patterns like MVC, MVVM
- Good understanding of multithreading concepts
- RDBMS (minimum 4 years)
- Dependency injection framework like Jersey or Spring (minimum 4 years)
- Comfortable using Linux environment
- Experience in bundling, minification and cache busting and ideally, experience in relational database like MySQL, Oracle or SQL Server
- Excellent organizational, prioritization and time management skills
- Effective communication skills
- Experience with automated software deployment, system redundancies and complete failover systems
- Previous experience in the following is considered an asset: NoSQL database like Mongo or Cassandra, Jade, Javascript, Angular, React, Velocity template, Maven, CSS processing engine like Saas or LESS, Amazon Web Services (or Azure, Google Cloud), Frontend build tools like Grunt, Webpack or Gulp, Git, Stash, Jenkins, JIRA, jQuery
- Knowledge of aeronautic industry, an asset
- Knowledge of avionic software development guidelines (DO-178, DO-278), an asset
- Previous experience working with IBM products like Cognos and Watson, an asset
All resumes will be retained for the duration of the recruit only; all resumes will be destroyed immediately following candidate selection. Personal information is reviewed by senior managers only, kept in strict confidence and used only for the purposes of scheduling interviews. By forwarding your resume and/or application for the position, you signify your understanding and acceptance of these terms.