Senior Legacy Modernization Engineer - Remote

DP Steel Services; Abu Dhabi; A distancia; AED 240.000 - 480.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

100% remote work

Distributed-team collaboration

Modernization of critical apps

Continuous learning culture

Descripción de la vacante

DP Steel Services in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a Senior Legacy Code Modernization Specialist to assess, refactor, and modernize mission-critical software while preserving business functionality. You will lead modernization roadmaps, decompose monoliths, implement API enablement, and improve build, test, and deployment pipelines across distributed teams.

Remote work enables collaboration with stakeholders worldwide while maintaining robust security and performance.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.
• 5–8 years of experience in software development, application modernization, refactoring, or enterprise systems engineering.
• Strong programming experience in languages such as Java, C#, C++, Python, JavaScript, or other relevant legacy and modern technologies.
• Experience analyzing and maintaining large, complex, or poorly documented codebases.
• Knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, clean code principles, and refactoring techniques.
• Experience with automated testing, continuous integration, version control, and regression testing.
• Familiarity with databases, APIs, system integrations, and legacy data migration.
• Understanding of application security, dependency management, performance optimization, and reliability engineering.
• Experience with cloud migration, containerization, microservices, or modular architecture is an advantage.
• Strong analytical, debugging, problem-solving, and technical documentation skills.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams remotely.

Responsabilidades

• Assess legacy applications, identify technical debt, and develop modernization roadmaps.
• Refactor outdated codebases to improve readability, maintainability, performance, and testability.
• Modernize legacy applications using current languages, frameworks, libraries, and architectural patterns.
• Plan and execute incremental migrations, including monolith decomposition, API enablement, and service modernization.
• Analyze existing business logic, dependencies, data flows, and undocumented system behavior.
• Develop automated tests and regression testing strategies to preserve functionality.
• Identify security vulnerabilities, obsolete dependencies, and compliance risks.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, QA, DevOps, and stakeholders.
• Improve build processes, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and workflows.
• Establish coding standards, documentation practices, and code review guidelines.
• Support data migration, system integration, performance tuning, and production releases.
• Track modernization progress, risks, milestones, and quality improvements.

Conocimientos

Software modernization

Java

C#

C++

Python

JavaScript

Refactoring

CI/CD

APIs

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Information Technology

Herramientas

CI/CD tooling

Version control

Cloud platforms

Descripción del empleo

DP Steel Services in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a Senior Legacy Code Modernization Specialist to assess, refactor, and modernize mission-critical software while preserving business functionality. You will lead modernization roadmaps, decompose monoliths, implement API enablement, and improve build, test, and deployment pipelines across distributed teams.

Remote work enables collaboration with stakeholders worldwide while maintaining robust security and performance.