Senior Java Engineer - Cloud & Microservices, Travel Benefits

Emirates Airlines - Other locations; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Emirates Group IT is seeking a Senior Technical Software Engineer - Java to join a high-performance agile team in Dubai. You will design, develop, deploy and maintain complex software solutions powering Emirates Group applications.

You will mentor engineers, drive engineering practices, and collaborate with cross-functional teams on cloud-native architectures, DevOps, and modern Java frameworks to deliver scalable, reliable systems.

Qualifications

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Software Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in application development using Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong expertise in Java frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, WebFlux, JPA/Hibernate) and test frameworks.
• Experience with ReactJS/NextJS for UIs and messaging/integration tech (Kafka, Solace, Tibco).
• Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift; cloud (AWS/Azure) and database expertise.
• CI/CD, DevOps, lean/TD development, and production support experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team to deliver design, development and deployment of complex solutions.
• Drive engineering practices, automation, lean software, test-driven development and blameless post-mortems.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to determine viability of solutions and drive prototypes.
• Investigate, debug and fix complex issues; evaluate new technologies for architectural review.
• Contribute to sprint planning with domain expertise and technical leadership.
• Mentor Software Engineers and ensure adherence to design and coding standards.
• Ensure optimal use of enterprise platforms, tools and libraries per architecture.
• Maintain products in collaboration with other capabilities and teams.

Skills

Problem-solving

Agile development

Production support

Leadership/mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

Spring WebFlux

JPA / Hibernate

JUnit / TestNG

ReactJS

NextJS

Kafka

Solace

Tibco

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

AWS

Azure

Oracle SQL

NoSQL

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

DevOps

SRE principles

Job description

Emirates Group IT is seeking a Senior Technical Software Engineer - Java to join a high-performance agile team in Dubai. You will design, develop, deploy and maintain complex software solutions powering Emirates Group applications.

You will mentor engineers, drive engineering practices, and collaborate with cross-functional teams on cloud-native architectures, DevOps, and modern Java frameworks to deliver scalable, reliable systems.