Cathay Pacific
Digital \& Information Technology
Information Technology Department
Permanent
Hong Kong SAR (China)
Application deadline: 27 Nov 2025
Role Introduction
Reports to: Solution Lead
Join Cathay as a Senior Mobile Developer in our Information Technology in our Information Technology Department. You will be responsible for building reliable, secure and highly-scalable IT systems for complex business problems by understanding and translating user needs into business and technical requirements and collaborating with crucial stakeholders to design, develop, test, integrate and implement these solutions.
Thrive in a dynamic and agile environment that embraces AI and cutting-edge technologies. Our culture fosters teamwork and progressive thinking, while our internal mobility program offers diverse career opportunities.
Leverage your expertise in mobile application development in the Integrated Operations Centre (IOC) solution team, ensuring we deliver on our brand promise and drive organizational success together with our wide-reaching IOC team.
Key Responsibilities
Collaborate with business users, internal technology teams and external vendors to identify fit-for-purpose, reliable, secure and highly-scalable IT solutions to complex business problems
Analyze and translate user needs into business and technical requirements, design, develop and ensure smooth implementation through collaboration with business and IT stakeholders
Participate in Scrum activities as Senior Developer/ Technical Lead
Work independently during programme and project execution to ensure successful, on-time delivery by anticipating dependencies and impediments, prioritizing tasks, making trade-offs between business needs and constraints and managing work time efficiently
Facilitate collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders through clear communication and documentation
Plan, prioritize and deliver systems enhancements and bug fixes
Provide Level 2 and 3 support, troubleshoot production systems and services
Design, build, test and deploy mobile/web application and/or prototype following best practices
Work closely with technical leads and architects to architect and develop the best technical design and approach for web/mobile applications
Collaborate with other IT domains to drive innovation
Requirements
Minimum 5 years of IT experience across entire software development lifecycle for delivery of complex software solutions
Bachelor’s (or equivalent education qualifications) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related disciplines
Solid hands-on experience with web / mobile application development using modern technologies, e.g. React Native, React, and NodeJS in a containerized environments like Openshift and Docker, cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure
Proficiency in Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and message queue systems (e.g. IBMMQ, BullMQ)
Experience designing and implementing real-time communication systems using protocols like Websocket
Strong commitment to architectural simplicity and clean, readable, and highly maintainable code
Advanced expertise in software development methodologies – Agile and DevOps is a must
Well organized, thrive in a sense-of-urgency environment, leverage best practices, and most importantly, innovate through any problem with a can-do attitude
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong verbal and written presentation skills, with ability to interact professionally with diverse groups of stakeholders. Well-developed analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, leveraging both logic and creativity
Knowledge in security and compliance practices and technologies, airline knowledge would be a plus
Personal \& Application Information
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