Senior 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’. 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!

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer - GenAI in our innovation platform team you will design and build secure, scalable code for GenAI applications, re-usable components, accelerators and work with platform teams to integrate AWS or Azure libraries and services, ensuring performance, compliance, and maintainability across the software lifecycle. Leveraging your experience with AI/ML models and immersive experience in enterprise platforms, you will deliver in a Centre of Excellence team for the capability. You will 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.

In this role, you will:

• Work with senior technical engineers in the technical design process by contributing to analyzing 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.

Qualification

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

• Degree in Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.
3 + years of Experience in Information Technology

Knowledge/skills:

• Design & Develop software in an enterprise environment.
• Solid understanding of Testing concepts such as unit testing, functional testing, and test automation.
• Resolving a variety of issues using technical expertise.
• Skilled in System Design Tools
• Designing, coding, and Maintaining medium to large applications/Modules.
• Strong Agile Software Development Skills
• Strong Systems Analytical and Technical Design skills
Experience in working with a range of technologies

Leadership Role: NO

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