Senior Developer, Digital

Job Summary

Reporting to the Manager, Development and Delivery, the Senior Developer, Digital provides technical leadership and hands-on expertise in designing, building, and maintaining Porter's React Native web and mobile applications. This role is a key contributor to scalability, performance, and reliability across the platform, and actively evolves Porter's engineering practices through hands-on delivery and mentorship of intermediate and junior developers.

The Senior Developer, Digital leads by example in applying strong engineering discipline (CI/CD, automation, observability, secure coding, AI-assisted development) while contributing to the technical roadmap supporting Porter's Flying Refined digital experience.

Duties & Responsibilities

Design, develop, and deliver complex features across Porter's React Native web and mobile applications (iOS, Android, and web), balancing scalability, performance, security, and maintainability

Use AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) as a core part of daily workflow to accelerate feature delivery, refactoring, testing, and debugging, and evaluate AI-generated output before it enters the codebase

Define and recommend AI-assisted engineering patterns within the pod, and consult with intermediate and junior developers on prompt patterns, tool selection, and validation practices

Design and deliver shared libraries and integrations across the web and mobile surface, and liaise with back-end engineering on API contracts, error handling, and end-to-end reliability

Construct and deliver CI/CD pipeline contributions (GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline), release automation, and build performance improvements for the web and mobile surface

Design and generate observability instrumentation (Datadog, Dynatrace, Firebase) so failures, performance regressions, and user-impacting events surface with actionable context

Liaise with the QA Automation team on testability, coverage strategy, and pipeline-integrated quality gates

Evaluate design proposals through technical design reviews and code reviews, and illustrate engineering craft to intermediate and junior developers through pairing, worked examples, and pattern documentation (testability, observability, security, performance, AI-assisted workflows)

Evaluate emerging AI-native development capabilities (agentic coding tools, AI code review, on-device LLMs, generative UX patterns) and prescribe targeted applications for Porter's roadmap

Deliver App Store, Google Play, and web release processes, and generate release notes, changelogs, and regression risk summaries using AI

Diagnose incidents through post-mortem analysis and recommend resilience improvements across the web and mobile surface

Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and libraries that improve developer productivity and application scalability

Participate in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, refinement, demos, retrospectives) and use AI to accelerate ticket refinement, estimation preparation, and retrospective synthesis

Actively participate in Porter's Safety Management System (SMS) by reporting hazards and incidents encountered in daily operations, and promoting a culture of safety

Behavioural Competencies

Concern for Safety: Identifying hazardous or potentially hazardous situations and taking appropriate action to maintain a safe environment for self and others.

Teamwork: Working collaboratively with others to achieve organizational goals.

Passenger/Customer Service: Providing service excellence to internal and/or external customers (passengers).

Initiative: Dealing with situations and issues proactively and persistently, seizing opportunities that arise.

Results Focus: Focusing efforts on achieving high quality results consistent with the organization’s standards.

Fostering Communication: Listening and communicating openly, honestly, and respectfully with different audiences, promoting dialogue and building consensus.

5+ years of experience developing production applications with React Native, ideally with experience shipping to iOS, Android, and web from a shared codebase

Deep proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, component-driven architecture, state management, and asynchronous programming

Strong grounding in software engineering principles (OOP, design patterns, modular architecture, testability, secure coding) and the ability to apply them to modern React Native codebases

Proven ability to design and deliver scalable, maintainable, and secure applications across web and mobile

Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and release management for web and mobile (GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Fastlane, EAS, or similar)

Working familiarity with observability tooling (Datadog, Dynatrace, Firebase) for application performance, error handling, and user-impact monitoring

Experience integrating RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs, cloud-hosted services, and third-party SDKs

Demonstrated ability to mentor intermediate and junior developers through code review, design review, and pairing

Demonstrated proficiency leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or similar) as a core part of daily workflow, and a track record of coaching others on effective use; ability to design effective prompts, evaluate model output, and codify validated patterns for team use is expected

Solid understanding of secure coding and data protection practices

Experience with mobile analytics, crash reporting, and app store submission processes (App Store, Google Play)

Effective communication and collaboration within Agile, cross-functional product teams

Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and cloud services (AWS) is an asset

Experience working within a product operating model or closely with business stakeholders is an asset

Aviation industry experience is an asset

Location

Toronto Downtown Office (250 Yonge Street) #LI-Hybrid

Since 2006, Porter Airlines has been elevating the experience of economy air travel for every passenger, providing genuine hospitality with style, care and charm. Porter’s fleet of Embraer E195-E2 and De Havilland Dash 8-400 aircraft serves North America, including a coast-to-coast domestic Canadian network, the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. Headquartered in Toronto, Porter is an Official 4 Star Airline® in the World Airline Star Rating®. Visit www.flyporter.com or follow @porterairlines on Instagram, Facebook and X.