Senior Technical Software Engineer

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'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 technical software engineer / Java - full stack.

The senior technical software engineer / Java full stack 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. The 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.

In this role you will:

• Collaborate with the team to deliver technical design, development, and deployment of complex solutions within the 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 the viability of solutions. Evaluate current problems, future requirements, and existing solutions in medium to large projects to enable high-level design and drive proofs-of-concept 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.