Senior Software Engineer - iXR

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 - iXR in our innovation platforms team, you will play a key role in building and scaling our iXR platforms. This role requires deep expertise in AWS, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD automation, and Python scripting. You will be responsible for designing cloud-native solutions, implementing robust deployment pipelines, and contributing to backend development efforts. The ideal candidate is hands-on, detail-oriented, and thrives in a fast-paced environment where reliability and performance are critical.

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.