Job details
Location: Hybrid – 3 days per week at VHQ, Crawley
Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Competitive
Closing Date : 10th February 2026
In a nutshell
At Virgin Atlantic, we believe in the extraordinary power of people to reshape what’s possible. With our bold ambition to become the most loved travel company, we’re redefining aviation through innovation, inclusivity, and a culture that puts people first. Individuality isn't just welcomed—it’s celebrated.As a Software Developer within Virgin Atlantic’s Digital Development & Delivery team, you will contribute to the development, maintenance, and support of backend services and APIs that underpin Virgin Atlantic’s customer experience platforms.
You will be responsible for building secure, scalable, and cloud-native microservices, hosted in Microsoft Azure and integrating with both internal and third-party systems.
Collaborating closely with technical leads, platform engineers, QA, and product teams, you will follow best practices in software design, observability, security, and DevOps principles. You will also contribute to L3 support activities, ensuring the stability and reliability of production systems.
Day to day
* Design, build, and maintain secure and performant .Net-based microservices.
* Implement RESTful APIs and GraphQL integrations for internal and external consumption.
* Ensure services are cloud-native, scalable, and resilient in Azure.
* Work closely with Technical Leads, QA Engineers, and Product Owners to deliver sprint goals.
* Contribute to estimation, technical design discussions, and documentation.
* Participate in DevOps practices including CI/CD automation and deployment activities.
* Support production systems through L3 incident triage and root cause analysis.
* Proactively monitor service health using observability tools.
* Identify opportunities for refactoring, performance improvements, and technical debt reduction
* Develop secure APIs and backend services adhering to best practices.
* Embed monitoring, logging, and tracing into all developed services.
* Ensure all solutions meet Virgin Atlantic's security and compliance standards.
About you
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or relevant experience.
* Considerable experience of professional backend development.
* Strong proficiency in .Net CORE.
* Hands‑on experience with Azure cloud services (Azure Functions, API Gateway, Cosmos DB, Application Insights etc.).
* Experience developing RESTful APIs and exposure to GraphQL services.
* Knowledge of microservices architecture and event‑driven patterns.
* Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).
* Knowledge of unit testing, integration testing, and automation testing.
* Awareness of security best practices, OAuth2/JWT authentication.
* Awareness of AI assisted development, Codex, GitHub CoPilot
Be Yourself – We Celebrate Difference
At Virgin Atlantic, diversity and inclusion are part of who we are. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we welcome individuals from all backgrounds. If you need any adjustments during the application process, reach out to us at Recruitment@fly.virgin.com—we’re here to help.
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