Senior Technical Software Engineer - Quality Engineering Platforms

The Emirates Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel benefits

Flight discounts

Hotel discounts

Job summary

The Emirates Group in Dubai seeks a Senior Technical Software Engineer for Quality Engineering Platforms to design, develop, and maintain software that supports global stakeholders. You will lead design reviews, drive engineering best practices, and mentor engineers while aligning with enterprise architecture and DevOps principles.

You will collaborate with product owners, architects, and cross-functional teams to deliver robust, scalable software solutions across hybrid cloud environments,

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in IT with backend development experience.
• Strong expertise in Java ecosystems and Spring suites.
• Hands-on with containerization, orchestration, and cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software solutions for enterprise platforms.
• Lead design reviews and ensure scalable, reliable architectures.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering standards.
• Collaborate with product owners and cross-functional teams.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

Hibernate

WebFlux

JPA

REST APIs

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenShift

SQL/NoSQL

CI/CD

DevOps

SRE Principles

Kafka

Tibco

Solace

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering

Tools

SonarQube

ShiftLeft

Kafka

Tibco

Solace

Job description

At Emirates we believe in connecting the world to and through our global hub in Dubai and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers Fly Better. Do you want to play a part in that journey and own technical products used by stakeholders and customers across the world? Join us in Cosmopolitan Dubai as a Senior Technical Software Engineer - Quality Engineering Platforms and make your mark on the aviation world. The Senior Technical Software Engineer is a fully participating member of an agile feature team who works independently on software development and problem resolution. The role is based within Quality Engineering Chapter and involves technical design software development implementation and maintenance of software solutions products that support the Emirates Group Business.

• Collaborate with the team to deliver technical design development and deployment of complex solutions within relevant product
• Carry out effective technical design reviews to ensure that the right architecture patterns are used by the team
• Drive the adoption of Engineering practices implement development process automation lean software development built‑in‑quality test‑driven development agile practices and timely root cause analysis and blameless incident post‑mortems
• Partner with cross‑functional teams to determine viability of solutions
• Evaluate current problems future requirements and existing solutions in medium to large projects to enable high level design and drive proof‑of‑concepts and implement prototypes to validate ideas
• Investigate debug and fix complex issues involving corner cases and rare conditions
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and new technologies and presenting these for architectural review
• Contribute to sprint work design and planning by providing subject matter expertise on business domain and relevant technologies and actively contribute to technology specific community of practices
• Manage and mentor Software Engineers to allow for skill knowledge development through advice coaching and training opportunities
• Responsible for their technical deliveries and adherence to design and coding standards and practices
• Ensure optimal use of enterprise application platforms tools and libraries in line with the approved technology architecture
• Responsible for corrective adaptive preventative and perfective maintenance of products in collaboration with other capabilities for the relevant products

• Minimum 5 years of experience in application development using Java versions 8 11 or 21 with Spring Boot and familiarity with code quality tools such as SonarQube and ShiftLeft
• Strong expertise in Java frameworks and libraries including Spring Boot Spring Cloud Spring WebFlux JPA Hibernate and test frameworks JUnit TestNG
• Experience with front‑end technologies such as ReactJS and NextJS for building user interfaces
• Proficiency in messaging and integration technologies including Solace Tibco and Kafka
• Hands‑on experience with containerisation and orchestration tools such as Docker Kubernetes and OpenShift and knowledge of hybrid cloud architecture AWS Azure
• Database expertise in Oracle SQL or similar RDBMS NoSQL databases and building RESTful API services
• Strong understanding of CI CD and DevOps principles with experience in lean software development test‑driven development and automated deployments
• Ability to design and implement event‑driven architectures reactive programming solutions and scalable systems following SRE principles and code review best practices
• Experience in technology evaluation vendor selection and managing technology platforms for DevOps including data pipelines code management and continuous integration deployment
• Excellent problem‑solving skills agile development experience and ability to provide production support for business‑critical applications
• Provide technical leadership guidance and mentorship to developers drive knowledge sharing and promote engineering standards and best practices within the team
• Collaborate with product owners business stakeholders enterprise architects and cross‑functional engineering teams to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions
• Exposure to AI ML Generative AI LLM integrations AI agents and intelligent automation would be an added advantage particularly in developing and integrating AI‑driven enterprise solutions

• Degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Information Technology.

Leadership Role No Salary amp benefits Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax‑free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry including discounts on flights and hotel stays around the world Find out what it s like to live and work in our fast‑paced cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www emirates com careers