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 technical software engineer and make your mark on the aviation world!

As a senior technical software engineer - commercial - fullstack (NextJS, ReactJS, NodeJS and Java), you will support in driving and implementing software engineering strategies, standards, and guidelines in the assigned feature team. Collaborate with the team to develop business-critical technical solutions through the application of software programming, robust engineering practices, and built-in quality. Job also includes planning/estimation, application development, deployment, release, hyper-care and operation of developed solutions. The job holder provides technical leadership to the assigned team in the software development lifecycle and plays a key role in managing and engineering integrations between vendor-built systems and Emirates' enterprise platforms. You'll collaborate closely with strategic vendor partners, engaging in deep technical discussions to review solution designs, and ensure technical alignment with Emirates' architectural and security standards.

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

To be considered for the role you must meet the below requirements:

• Degree or honours or equivalent degree in a relevant field such as computer science, computational mathematics, computer engineering, or software engineering.
• 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.
• Hands-on development experience in NextJS, ReactJS, NodeJS and Java, with strong expertise in microservices, API design, and CI/CD automation.
• 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 and working closely with strategic vendor partners, engaging in deep technical discussions to review solution designs, and ensuring technical alignment with architectural and security standards.
• 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 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.