Senior Technical Software Engineer – Frontend Engineering

Brand: Emirates Group 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 – Frontend Development and make your mark on the aviation world! The Senior Technical Software Engineer – Frontend Development is a fully participating member of an agile feature team who will help shape and scale modern frontend engineering across the organisation. You’ll bring deep expertise in React, Next.js and TypeScript, with a strong track record of building scalable design systems, accessible component libraries and shared engineering frameworks. From performance, security and automated testing to CI/CD and frontend governance, you’ll champion engineering quality while helping teams adopt modern practices, including AI-assisted development and Figma-to-code workflows. 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. Qualification To be considered for the role you must meet the below requirements: - Degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering. - Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Information Technology. Knowledge and Skills: - Hands-on expertise in React (18/19), Next.js (App Router, Server Components), and TypeScript - Proven track record of architecting scalable design systems, accessible UI component libraries (Storybook, Radix, Tailwind) - Strong breadth across the modern web stack—including monorepo tooling (Turborepo, pnpm), client-side security (OAuth 2.0/OIDC, CSP), performance tuning, and CI/CD pipelines—with an emphasis on building shared npm packages, design tokens, and CLI scaffolding tools consumed across enterprise teams. - Experience of developing advanced/Complex technology Software solutions for large, complex organisations in a multi-functional environment. - Solid experience in data modelling, systems design and expert coder in the technology listed in the skills category - Experience in providing production support for business solutions using ITIL framework - Expert in Technology technical evaluation, vendor selection and technology vendor management using data driven models - Implementation of contemporary engineering practices like lean software development, test driven development, continuous integration and continuous deployment - Establishing and managing leveraging technology platforms for DevOps, Code Management, Testing, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for ensuring robust and reliable code base is always maintained. Leadership: No Salary & 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.

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

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.