Senior Software

Facilitative Employment Services - Kamayi; Dubai; On-site; AED 112,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Facilitative Employment Services - Kamayi seeks an experienced Senior Software Engineer to be deployed with a major international airline client in Dubai. You will design and build scalable, production-grade software systems and lead technical decisions in a fast-paced environment.

This hands-on senior role includes mentoring junior engineers and shaping engineering best practices. You will design RESTful APIs and microservices, optimize SQL Server performance, and collaborate with product

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with C#/.NET in enterprise environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering; Microsoft certifications AZ-204/AZ-400 are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop robust RESTful APIs and microservices using Core with clean/hexagonal architecture.
• Lead code reviews and establish engineering best practices and quality benchmarks.
• Optimize application performance and SQL Server queries through profiling and indexing.
• Collaborate with product owners, architects and cross-functional stakeholders to translate requirements into high-quality solutions.
• Design and implement cloud-native solutions on Azure (App Services, Functions, Service Bus, AKS) with CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers through code reviews and pair programming.
• Champion security best practices including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT and OWASP guidelines.
• Contribute to observability and monitoring using Serilog, OpenTelemetry and Application Insights.

Skills

C#/.NET

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

AZ-204 and AZ-400 certifications

Tools

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL Server

EF Core

CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)

Job description

JOB PURPOSE

Were seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to be deployed with our airline client a major international airline headquartered in Dubai as part of their IT Innovation and Digital Services team. You will design and build scalable production-grade software systems and C# lead technical decisions and drive engineering best practices in a collaborative fast-paced environment. This is a hands‑on senior role that combines deep technical delivery with mentorship of junior and mid‑level engineers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and develop robust RESTful APIs and microservices using Core applying clean/hexagonal architecture patterns.
• Lead code reviews and establish engineering best practices coding standards and quality benchmarks across the team.
• Optimise application performance and SQL Server database queries through profiling indexing and benchmarking techniques.
• Collaborate with product owners architects and cross‑functional stakeholders to translate requirements into high‑quality technical solutions.
• Design and implement cloud‑native solutions on Azure (App Services Functions Service Bus AKS) with CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor and guide junior and mid‑level developers through code reviews pair programming and knowledge sharing.
• Champion security best practices including OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect JWT and OWASP secure coding guidelines.
• Contribute to observability and monitoring strategy using Serilog OpenTelemetry and Application Insights.

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

1. & C#

• Deep expertise in C# (generics async/await LINQ reflection delegates and events) .NET Core / .NET 5 Core Web API middleware pipeline dependency injection Entity Framework Core (migrations query optimisation relationships). Strong CLR memory management and GC knowledge.

2. Architecture & Design:

• SOLID principles design patterns (Factory Repository CQRS Mediator Decorator) clean/hexagonal architecture microservices and SOA domain‑driven design. REST GraphQL and gRPC API design.

3. Data & Storage

• SQL Server (query tuning indexing stored procedures transactions) ORMs (EF Core Dapper) NoSQL (Redis MongoDB Cosmos DB) and data modelling fundamentals.

4. Cloud & DevOps

• Azure (App Services Functions Service Bus AKS) CI/CD (Azure DevOps GitHub Actions) containerisation (Docker Kubernetes) infrastructure‑as‑code (Bicep Terraform).

& Quality

• xUnit NUnit MSTest integration testing mocking (Moq NSubstitute) TDD/BDD mindset code review practices SonarQube Roslyn analysers.

6. Security

• OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect JWT Identity OWASP awareness secrets management and secure coding practices.

7. Performance & Observability:

• Profiling and benchmarking (.NET Diagnostics ) distributed tracing and logging (Serilog OpenTelemetry Application Insights) caching strategies.

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

Category Requirement

• Experience 58 years of professional software development experience with C# / .NET as primary technology stack.
• Education Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or equivalent discipline. Relevant Microsoft certifications (e.g. AZ-204 AZ-400) are a strong advantage.
• Compensation AED 10000 AED 13000 per month inclusive of standard Cinergie Digital
• Domain Prior experience in airline aviation or travel technology is advantageous but not mandatory.