Software Developer

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
JOB OBJECTIVE:

• The Software Engineer will directly report to the onshore Software Engineering Manager for the assigned project within the UAE.
• The Software Engineer must proactively work within an agile team on a service-oriented architecture; he must have practical understanding, be force of proposal, be open to change, continuously improving his technical skills and like to work in an agile environment.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implement Rich web interface development (JavaScript, HTML-5, CSS3, VueJS, Angular).
• Implement Software components developments (Java, Maven, Vert.X, Spring Boot, REST).
• Take part in Continuous Integration Responsibility (Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, Git, Jira, Sonar).
• Have ownership of his code, participate in the deployment and accompany it to production (practice in Ansible, Bash, SSH, Linux, Docker).
• Be an Active part of the Agile team.
• Enforce Code best practices and rules, TDD, time commitments.
• Take technical decisions and be able to defend and justify his own and the team choices.
• Be the go-to person for technical challenges.
• Write high-quality documents (e.g. technical documents, Low Level Design, ICD, High Level Designs, How-To documents, Software Requirement Specifications etc.)
• Adhere to project schedule, strategies, policies and constraints.

WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum 3 years experience in development with high fluency in Java and Web user interface development.
• The candidate must have rich hands-on experience in JAVA development and JavaScript frameworks (one of Angular, ReactJS or VueJS).
• A pre-requisite is a strong knowledge of different architectural paradigms, including SOA and microservice, cloud-native architectures, DevOps, SDLC and OOP Design best practices.
• Demonstrable experience in using tools related to Agile Software development and DevOPS: GIT, Ansible, Docker, JIRA, Jenkins, Artifactory and similar.
• Must have technical writing experience (in English) and ability to produce high-quality documents.
• Must be fluent in English.
• Knowledge and experience of Linux System is mandatory.
• Knowledge and experience of Databases and SQL is mandatory.
• Candidates with additional knowledge in Python, C, C++ will be considered seriously.

QUALIFICATION, CERTIFICATION & EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• A bachelor's in science degree standard or equivalent experience in a Software development environment.
• Must have high fluency in spoken and written English (Candidates also fluent in French or/and Arabic will be preferred).
• Certifications in JAVA, Linux, DevOps toolset and Agile are preferred.
• A working experience with Real-time Software, Radio Protocols, Radio wave, and communication would be beneficial.
• Knowledge and experience in other languages, like C, C++ and Python are preferred.