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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're 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 team as a Senior Software Engineer.
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.
In This Role You Will
To be considered for the role you must meet the below requirements:
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 hotels stays around the world.
Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers.
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're 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 team as a Senior Software Engineer.
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.
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 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.
- 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 Emirates Group IT coding standards, guidelines, and best practices and contribute to Software Engineering Playbooks and other Standards documents.
To be considered for the role you must meet the below 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.
- Web Technologies: React.JS.
- Data Base Technologies: Relational databases: Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres; NoSQL databases: Couchbase, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Cassandra.
- Cloud Technologies - Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud.
- DevOps: GIT, Docker, Openshift, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Splunk, JIRA, Confluence.
- Build: Maven, Ant, Gradle.
- Automation Testing: Jasmine, Jest, Karma, Junit, mockito, Jmock, Jmeter.
- Quality: SonarQube.
- Security: ShiftLeft.
- Integration: Informatica, Snaplogic, Solace, APIGee; Application Performance Monitoring: AppDynamics.
- Experience of developing advanced/Complex technology Software solutions for large organisations.
- Experience in providing production support for business solutions using ITIL framework.
- 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 robust and reliable code base is always maintained and managing technology platforms for DevOps, Code Management/Testing.
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 hotels stays around the world.
Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers.
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- Posted
- Jun 19, 2025
- Type
- Full-time
- Level
- Mid-Senior
- Location
- Dubai
- Company
- Emirates
Industries
Airlines
Aviation
Categories
Engineering
Information Technology
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