Senior Software Engineer

Job description / Role

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'. Do you want to play a part in that journey and own technical products used by stakeholders and customers across the world? Join us in cosmopolitan Dubai as a senior software engineer and make your mark on the aviation world!

The senior software engineer is a fully participating member of an agile feature team who works independently on software development and problem resolution. The role involves technical design, software development, implementation, and maintenance of software solutions/products that support the Emirates Group business.

As a senior software engineer - iXR in our innovation platforms team, you will play a key role in building and scaling our iXR platforms. This role requires deep expertise in AWS, infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD automation, and Python scripting. You will be responsible for designing cloud-native solutions, implementing robust deployment pipelines, and contributing to backend development efforts. The ideal candidate is hands-on, detail-oriented, and thrives in a fast-paced environment where reliability and performance are critical.

In this role, you will:

• Work with senior technical engineers in the technical design process by contributing to analyzing 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.
• Be 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 refactoring 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 in computer science, computational mathematics, computer engineering or software engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in information technology.

Knowledge/skills:

• Design and develop software in an enterprise environment.
• Solid understanding of testing concepts such as unit testing, functional testing, and test automation.
• Hands-on experience developing and deploying solutions on AWS.
• Skilled in automation and scripting languages such as Python, GoLang, TypeScript, Node.js etc.
• Resolving a variety of issues using technical expertise.
• Skilled in system design tools.
• Designing, coding, and maintaining 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.

Leadership role: No

Salary & benefits

Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That's on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more.

About the Company

A fast-growing international airline with one of the youngest fleets in the sky and more than 400 awards for excellence worldwide.