Senior Technical Software Engineer - API Platform Kong

Overview

Job Purpose
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’. Join us in Cosmopolitan Dubai as a Senior Technical Software Engineer - API Platform (Kong) and make your mark on the aviation world!

Job Description

Job Purpose
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’. Join us in Cosmopolitan Dubai as a Senior Technical Software Engineer - API Platform (Kong) and make your mark on the aviation world!

The Senior Technical Software Engineer - API Platform (Kong) is a fully participating member of an agile feature team who will be designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise API platform capabilities and related infrastructure. The role focuses on the development and operation of API gateway solutions using Kong and other API Gateway technologies, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable API services. You will support in driving and implementing software engineering strategies, standards, and guidelines.

You will collaborate with the team to develop business-critical technical solutions through the application of software programming, robust engineering practices, and built-in quality. The job also includes planning/estimation, application development, deployment, release, hyper-care and operation of developed solutions.

In This Role, You Will

• 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 product.

Qualifications

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

Knowledge/skills

• Strong experience in building, operating, and supporting enterprise-scale API platforms using Kong API Gateway, including API design, gateway configuration, policy enforcement, and production operations.
• Proven expertise in designing, developing, and securing scalable APIs (RESTful, Graph
  
  QL) for enterprise environments, leveraging microservices and integration platforms.
• Hands-on experience in the design, development, and management of asynchronous APIs, including event-driven and message-based integration patterns.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise, with practical experience using tools such as Terraform and Ansible, along with source control and collaboration using Git Lab.
• Demonstrated experience building and managing Dev Sec Ops  pipelines using Git Lab CI/CD, enabling automated build, test,…