Software Developer

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Thales has built a presence in the United Arab Emirates for over 35 years, and today has over 300 employees. Thales in the UAE is part of our Middle East business that has 1,800 people across Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, KSA, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and UAE. Together we delivered technology for the Dubai metro, the longest driverless metro network in the world and a fare collection system that processes up to 250,000 transactions per day. We make UAE a safer place by providing secure electronic payment solutions, cyber security systems and communications as well as security systems for Dubai International Airport and air traffic management and navigation systems for Abu Dhabi’s airport.

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 s 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 micro service, 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.
  
  
  

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