Senior Technical 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!

As a senior technical 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:

• Collaborate with the team to deliver technical design, development and deployment of complex solutions within relevant product. Carry out effective technical design reviews to ensure that the right architecture patterns are used by the team.
• Drive the adoption of engineering practices, implement development process automation, lean software development, built-in-quality, test driven development, agile practices, and timely root cause analysis and blameless incident post-mortems.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to determine viability of solutions. Evaluate current problems, future requirements and existing solutions in medium to large projects to enable high level design and drive proof-of-concepts and implement prototypes to validate ideas.
• Investigate, debug and fix complex issues involving corner cases and rare conditions. Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and new technologies and presenting these for architectural review.
• Contribute to sprint/work design and planning by providing subject matter expertise on business domain and relevant technologies and actively contribute to technology specific community of practices.
• Manage and mentor software engineers to allow for skill/knowledge development through advice, coaching, and training opportunities. Responsible for their technical deliveries and adherence to design and coding standards and practices.
• Ensure optimal use of enterprise application platforms, tools and libraries in line with the approved technology architecture.
• Responsible for corrective, adaptive, preventative and perfective maintenance of products in collaboration with other capabilities for the relevant product.

Qualification

This job might be for you if you have:

• Degree or honours (12+3 or equivalent).
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in information technology.
• Experience of developing advanced/complex technology software solutions for large, complex organisations in a multi-functional environment.
• Experience developing and/or integrating AI solutions, whether through in-house development or leveraging managed AI services.
• Solid experience in data modelling, systems design and expert coder in the technology listed in the skills category.
• Experience in providing production support for business solutions using ITIL framework.
• Deep experience in full stack development capabilities covering all layers (i.e. UI/Middleware and databases).
• Expert in technology technical evaluation, vendor selection and technology vendor management using data driven models.
• Implementation of contemporary engineering practices like lean software development, test driven development, continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Establishing and managing leveraging technology platforms for DevOps, code management, testing, continuous integration and continuous deployment for ensuring robust and reliable code base is always maintained.
• Experience of designing and developing high-availability software solutions in cloud environments such as AWS and Azure.

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.