Python Software Developer jobs in United Arab Emirates

Join us at Gallagher Re, the trailblazers of the reinsurance world, where every day brings new opportunities to shape the future. We empower our clients with cutting-edge analytics and insights, providing them the confidence to make strategic decisions that transform industries. As a team member, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, translating data into impactful solutions and taking the reins of your career like never before.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

As our Software Engineer you will be involved with designing, creating, testing and deploying web based software products as part of Gallagher Re’s engineering team, to serve our business, one of the largest reinsurance brokerages in the world.

As well as being a key part of a product team, responsible for building world class software products, you’ll be advising and leading on best practices for evolving and improving our code base to help us avoid falling behind industry standards, and helping us innovate and create new ways of solving technical issues across the whole department.

Ensuring security and performance are at the forefront of all that you do, along with accessibility by default, this role offers a real opportunity to shape the day to day experience of hundreds of colleagues across Gallagher Re. It will give opportunities to stretch and develop your own skillset by working on challenging problems, collaborating with colleagues to grow both individually and as a team, delivering the very best outcomes for our business.

We are happy for this to be based anywhere in the UK, the one requirement would be that you can travel to our London Headquarters once a month for the team meet up days.

Please note, full working rights to work in the UK is a requirement of this position and we cannot offer sponsorship at this time.

• Designing and developing all aspects of software products for use across Gallagher Re, in a senior capacity, taking ownership for large/complex applications across the full development lifecycle
• Enhancing and refactoring existing products using the latest versions of .net and Angular, and optimising for cloud native deployment in Azure.
• Providing coaching and training to colleagues across the organisation
• Conducting code reviews of work carried out across the team
• Supporting the development and application of consistent standards and patterns across the team and wider business
• Facilitating performance and security tests against new and existing codebases
• Analysing high level requirements and creating appropriate tasks for development
• Consulting with BAs, designers, front end developers etc to ensure the best quality software possible is created
• Creating appropriate unit tests for existing and new code
• Recommending evolutions to development methodologies and standards and implementing as appropriate as part of our continuous improvement culture
• Working with 2nd line support function to troubleshoot, fix and refactor issues in live systems

• Detailed knowledge of all aspects of application development, including C#, HTML, CSS and JavaScript with an emphasis on development using the Angular framework and the RxJS library.
• Significant experience creating and interacting with RESTful APIs via C# and Javascript interfaces
• Solid knowledge of SQL Server, interacting via ORMs and SQL stored procedures
• Experience working with bundlers such as Webpack
• Knowledge and experience across the following:
  • Design patterns
  • CI and deployment using AzureDevOps or similar tooling
  • Azure Cloud services such as App Service, Function App, Service Bus & Key vault
  • Knowledge of microservices
  • E2E testing automation tools such as Cypress/Selenium/Playwright
  • Git version control
  • Agile development using Scrum
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills
• Ability to work across multiple, complex product domains

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
• Critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
• Emergency back-up family care
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversity

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with TAGlobalSupport@ajg.com . If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.