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. Emirates Group IT thrives on the dynamic nature of technology. Being pioneers in aviation innovation, we're always at the forefront pushing boundaries. We are on the lookout for exceptional IT professionals to fortify our position as leaders in the industry. Embark on a journey with the world's largest international airline and become a vital part of our cutting-edge information and technology as a senior software engineer - Python.

The senior software engineer - Python 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 of 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 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 optimised 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

Experience with the following technologies:

• Software development and application support in Python.
• Frameworks/Libraries/Language: PyTest, SonarQube, PEP8, Solace, Gunicorn, NGINX, SciKit-Learn, TensorFlow, Anaconda, Conda Environments.
• JWT Token, Pandas, Numpy, AppDynamics, matplotlib, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2022, GraphQL, restQL, Django, REST Framework.
• Apache Beam, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Airflow, Ray, MLOps, ELK/Splunk, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Test Frameworks, ShiftLeft, SonarQube, Tibco, Solace, Kafka.
• Principals: TDD, BDD, CI/CD, DevOps, GitOps, FinOps, SRE, Code Review, Event Driven Micro-Services development, Configuration Management, Functional programming, Reactive programming, Solution design, hybrid cloud architecture, Serverless, distributed, multi-region, self-healing system.
• DB: Couchbase, MariaDB, Oracle, RDS, DynamoDB, Neo4J, Postgres, Redis, Ignite, Hyperledger.
• Cloud vendor: AWS.

Leadership role: No

Salary & benefits

Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel stays around the world. Find out what it's like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city.

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.