Senior Java Software Engineer

Senior Java Software Engineer | Relocate to UAE🇦🇪 Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE (relocation package available) Salary: 30,000 – 40,000 AED per month tax-free Join a high-growth cybersecurity scale-up in Abu Dhabi as a Senior Java Engineer and play a critical role in shaping the engineering platform that underpins mission-critical security products. You'll build and evolve the frameworks, libraries, and developer tooling that enable teams to ship faster, more reliably, and at massive scale. Your work will enable true cloud-agnostic delivery across AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, and bare-metal environments, while raising the bar for reliability, observability, and production readiness across the organisation. This is a hands-on, deeply technical role for engineers who enjoy JVM internals, distributed systems, and building high-leverage platform tooling that improves how entire engineering teams work. Required Experience: • 8+ years of production Java experience (Java 17/21 preferred) • Deep JVM expertise (concurrency, GC tuning, profiling, performance optimisation) • Strong experience with Spring Boot and reactive systems (Project Reactor / WebFlux) • Proven experience building internal platforms, frameworks, SDKs, or shared libraries at scale • Strong distributed systems fundamentals (consistency, retries, idempotency, failure modes, backpressure) • Experience with Kubernetes-native and cloud-agnostic architectures (multi-cloud or hybrid) • Strong observability mindset (SLIs, SLOs, alerting, error budgets) • Experience owning production systems end-to-end in high-availability environments What’s in it for you? • Ownership of key platform decisions, driving the growth and scale of critical products • Opportunity to shape complex application and infrastructure at scale • High autonomy within a technically strong, collaborative engineering culture • Benefits include Visa & health insurance (for you and your family), and annual flight ticket • Relocation package: flights and one month accommodation on arrival (for you and your family) Why Relocate to the UAE? Abu Dhabi offers an exceptional lifestyle with tax-free income, year-round sun, and a high standard of living. Ranked as the second safest country in the world, making it an ideal location for individuals and families seeking long-term stability. The UAE has become a major hub for innovation, driven by significant investment attracting some of the most innovative start-ups and scale-ups from across the globe. If this sounds like you, please apply with your latest CV and we will be in touch to discuss the role further! Show more Show less

8+ years of production Java experience (Java 17/21 preferred). Deep JVM expertise (concurrency, GC tuning, profiling, performance optimisation). Strong experience with Spring Boot and reactive systems (Project Reactor / WebFlux). Proven experience building internal platforms, frameworks, SDKs, or shared libraries at scale. Strong distributed systems fundamentals (consistency, retries, idempotency, failure modes, backpressure). Experience with Kubernetes-native and cloud-agnostic architectures (multi-cloud or hybrid). Strong observability mindset (SLIs, SLOs, alerting, error budgets). Experience owning production systems end-to-end in high-availability environments.

This is a hands-on, deeply technical role for engineers who enjoy JVM internals, distributed systems, and building high-leverage platform tooling that improves how entire engineering teams work. You will build and evolve frameworks, libraries, and developer tooling that enable teams to ship faster, more reliably, and at massive scale. Your work will enable true cloud-agnostic delivery across AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, and bare-metal environments, while raising the bar for reliability, observability, and production readiness across the organisation. You’ll have ownership of key platform decisions, driving the growth and scale of critical products and shape complex application and infrastructure at scale.