Senior Software Engineer - Build Scalable, Secure Systems

Emirates NBD Bank; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Emirates NBD Bank in the UAE seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop and deliver high quality applications across the tech stack. The role emphasizes secure, well-documented code and adherence to best practices.

The candidate will work with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), cloud design patterns and CI/CD, translating requirements into scalable solutions while maintaining system documentation and enabling service resilience.

Qualifications

• Graduate / Postgraduate in related degree of education, Computer Science, or Engineering
• Minimum 5 years of development and design experience
• Experience in development and enhancement of Coding Frameworks and libraries
• Hands on experience in performance tuning, debugging, monitoring
• Understanding of containerization, experienced in Dockers, Kubernetes.
• Deep knowledge of waterfall and agile development practices in general as well as in specific areas of development.
• Extensive coding experience with SOLID principles, Event Driven Architecture, Spring boot, KAFKA, MongoDB, Spring Cloud, Hibernate and have passion for coding.
• Good hands-on experience with cloud design patterns and their implementation.
• Well versed with CI/CD principles, and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem
• Familiar with Distributed services resiliency and monitoring in a production environment.
• Exposed to API gateway integrations like 3Scale, Kong etc
• Experience in following best Coding, Security, Unit testing and Documentation standards and practices
• Ensure quality of technical and application architecture and design of systems across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and deliver high quality applications in accordance with the agreed scope, cost and timeline.
• Analyze business and functional requirements.
• Size development effort based on functional and non-functional requirements.
• Convert functional requirements into technical specifications.
• Design data models and create program structure.
• Design, code and debug applications in various software languages.
• Apply international best practices to write secure, clean and healthy structured, well documented code.
• Perform unit testing using appropriate tools to determine whether the code is fit for use.
• Participate in peer code review to find mistakes overlooked in development, improving the overall quality of the software.
• Maintain system related documentation such as data dictionary, parameters manuals, system manuals, and user manuals.
• Ensure PMO/INA procedures are followed, and necessary documentations maintained.

Skills

SOLID principles

Event Driven Architecture

Unit testing

Security best practices

Performance tuning

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Spring Boot

Kafka

MongoDB

Spring Cloud

Hibernate

Job description

Emirates NBD Bank in the UAE seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop and deliver high quality applications across the tech stack. The role emphasizes secure, well-documented code and adherence to best practices.

The candidate will work with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), cloud design patterns and CI/CD, translating requirements into scalable solutions while maintaining system documentation and enabling service resilience.