Java Backend

APAC; Dubai; On-site; AED 257,000 - 331,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital transformation consultancy in Dubai is seeking a Senior Java Back End Engineer to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of software development experience, extensive Java knowledge, and a passion for mentoring. Responsibilities include utilizing Agile practices, enhancing user experiences, and driving best engineering practices. Join a dynamic team enhancing digital products.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of software development experience with experience working in Agile teams.
• Full stack engineer with a passion for mentoring other colleagues in the team.
• Extensive experience of Java 7/8, Java EE, Spring framework including Spring Boot.

Responsibilities

• Use Agile engineering practices and various software and web development technologies.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Designers and team members.
• Drive forward and role-model best practice engineering processes.

Job description

About Xebia

Xebia is a trusted advisor in the modern era of digital transformation serving hundreds of leading brands worldwide with end-to-end IT solutions. The company has experts specializing in technology consulting software engineering AI digital products and platforms data cloud intelligent automation agile transformation and industry digitization. In addition to providing high‑quality digital consulting and state‑of‑the‑art software development Xebia has a host of standardized solutions that substantially reduce the time‑to‑market for businesses.

Xebia also offers a diverse portfolio of training courses to help support forward‑thinking organizations as they look to upskill and educate their workforce to capitalize on the latest digital capabilities. The company has a strong presence across 16 countries with development centres across the US Latin America Western Europe Poland the Nordics the Middle East and Asia Pacific.

Senior Java Back End Engineer

DESCRIPTION

As a senior Developer you will work in a cross‑functional team with the Product Owner Designers and engineers to co‑develop the digital products. Our engineers contribute across the full technology stack from database and DevOps infrastructure that supports continuous deployment over native apps to front end development.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Use Agile engineering practices and various software and web development technologies
  to rapidly develop creative and efficient solutions that enhance the client customer and employee experience
  Work with other team members to craft clear user stories design tests for prototypes and productsand continuously deliver product enhancements
  Liaise with other teams within and outside the Digital unit to negotiate timelinesdeliverables and dependencies
  Collaborate closely with Product Owners Designers and team members to identify and socialize product and delivery risks
  Drive forward and role‑model best practice engineering processes and Agile behavior and ensuring teams members follow suit
  Communicate with business stakeholders about Agile processes to set and manage expectations about delivery methods and timelines
  Own and drive best practice in terms of automation such as continuous integration and deployment

TYPICAL SKILLS & BACKGROUND

• At least 8 years of software development experience with experience working in Agile teams
  Full stack engineer with a passion for mentoring other colleagues in the team
  Extensive experience of Java 7/8 Java EE Spring framework including Spring Boot Spring Cloud Spring Messaging JPA
  ORM Maven and other Java Open Source frameworks.
  Expertise with developing Cloud Native Microservices Event Driven design and Development using Java with extensive knowledge of Integration Gateway Monitoring tools Observability platforms like Grafana
  Excellent Knowledge of ElasticSearch Redis MongoDb Apache Kafka
  Infrastructure knowledge including RESTful APIs Single Sign On OAuth LDAP Search Technologies
  Expertise with Docker & Kubernetes
  Extensive experience with Git such as branching merging tagging and Pull Requests.
  Experience with CI-CD (Jenkins or similar)
  Excellent knowledge of SQL and one common database technology such as Oracle MsSql MySQL
  Experiences with code refactoring design patterns design‑driven development continuous deployment highly scalable applications application security
  Working knowledge and experience in designing distributed applications
  Working knowledge of DevOps Docker and infrastructure as code
  Experience with at least one unit testing framework such as jUnit
  Familiarity with the concepts of Functional Programming is a plus

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Xebia Creating Digital Leaders.