Senior Software Engineer - Java Full Stack

At the company, we believe in connecting the world, and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers ‘Fly Better’. The company Group IT thrives on the dynamic nature of technology. We are on the lookout for exceptional IT professionals to fortify our position as leaders in the industry. 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 company Group Business.

Responsibilities

• 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 company 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 company Group IT coding standards, guidelines, and best practices and contribute to Software Engineering Playbooks and other Standards documents.

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.
• 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.

Leadership Role
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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.