Senior Software Engineer - Java Full Stack

Job Purpose

In This Role You Will

• Work with senior technical engineers in the technical design process by contributing to analysing 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 by implementing Emirates Group approved coding standards.
• Participate in rotational on-call support and actively participate in resolving production issues within SLAs with minimal or no active supervision.
• Responsible 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 in the code development.
• Continuously stay current with the relevant technologies and implement the learnings to enhance code quality.
• Adhere to the Emirates Group IT coding standards, guidelines, and best practices and contribute to Software Engineering Playbooks and other Standards documents.

Qualification

• To be considered for the role you must meet the below requirements:
• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in Backend Application Development, primarily in Java (versions 8+) with microservices capability.
• Back End Technologies: Java8+, Spring, Spring Boot, Restful API, SOAP, Microservices, Design Patterns, Design approach such as API First, Agentic AI Framework, Caching tools and techniques viz-a-viz Redis, Couchbase, etc.
• Web Technologies: React.js / Next.js / Node.js.
• Database Technologies: Relational databases: Oracle, MariaDB, SQL Server, Postgres; NoSQL databases: Couchbase, MongoDB, Elastic Search, GraphQL.
• Cloud Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud.
• DevOps: GitLab, Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Splunk, JIRA, Confluence, Spinnaker, and such CD experience.
• Build: Maven, Ant, Gradle.
• Automation Testing: Jasmine, Jest, Karma, Junit, Mockito, Jmock, Jmeter, Selenium
• Quality: SonarQube.
• Security: ShiftLeft, Sentinel tools.
• Integration: Informatica, Snaplogic, Solace, APIGee, and Kong, such as API management solutions and API platform handling; Application Performance Monitoring: AppDynamics.
• Low Code / No Code exposure, such as Power Agent Copilot Studio etc.,
• Prompt Engineering, Context, and Agentic AI Engineering.
• Experience in developing advanced/Complex technology Software solutions for large organisations with API API-first methodology.
• Experience in providing production support for business solutions using the ITIL framework, including but not limited to monitoring, self-healing, usage of observability tools.
• Deep experience in full-stack development capabilities, technology technical evaluation, vendor selection, and management.
• Implementation of contemporary engineering practices like lean software and test-driven development, CI/CD for ensuring a robust and reliable code base is always maintained, and managing technology platforms for DevOps, Code Management/Testing.
• Experience in developing code using advanced agentic AI practices.

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