Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

Job Purpose: At Emirates, we believe in connecting the world, to and through, our global hub in Dubai; and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers ‘Fly Better’. Join us in cosmopolitan Dubai and make your mark on the aviation world by taking our products to the next level.

The Senior Software Engineer is a fully participating member of an agile feature team working independently on software development and problem resolution. The role involves technical design, software development, implementation and maintenance software solutions/products that support the Emirates Group Business.

In this role, you will:

• Work with senior technical engineers in the technical design process by contributing in the analysis of technical application requirements.
• Convert technical solutions for small to medium sized initiatives into low level design and working code.
• Independently write secure and optimized code through implementation of Emirates Group approved coding standards.
• Be part of the rotational on-call support and actively participate in resolving production issues within SLA’s with minimal or no active supervision.
• Accountable for built in quality and ensuring 100% unit testing as part of the CI/CD pipeline.
• Analyse and fix all identified defects with minimal rework
• Ensure re-factoring practices are adequately adopted to ensure minimum code debt.
• Ensure logging and monitoring hooks are implemented as part of the code development.
• Continuously stay up to date in the relevant technologies and implement the learnings to enhance the code quality.
• Adhere to the Emirates Group IT coding standards, guidelines and best practices and contribute to Software Engineering Playbooks and other Standards documents.

Qualifications & Experience: This job might be for you if you have:

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) :
  • Degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering
• Minimum of 3 years experience in IT
  • Experience in Software Engineering experience preferably in agile ways of working Experience with a range of technologies ( please refer the ‘SWE Core Technology grouping)
  • Design & Develop software in an enterprise environment.
  • Solid understanding of Testing concepts such as unit testing, functional testing and test automation.
  • Resolving a variety of issues using technical expertise. – System design tools as well as experience using technologies as listed in the skills category
  • Design, code and maintain medium to large applications/modules.
  • Strong Agile Software Development Skills
  • Strong Systems Analytical and Technical Design skills
  • Experience in working with a range of technologies as listed below:
    • Spring Boot 2.X
    • Mockito , Junit 5.X
    • NoSQL
    • Micro Services
    • Data-structures, Algorithms and Design Patterns
    • Functional programming
    • Code analysis / observability / availability
    • Cloud Platforms

At Emirates Group, we’re committed to providing our employees with opportunities to grow and develop in their careers. So if you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity, apply today and join our team!