Software Engineer

We are seeking a highly experienced Software Engineer with a strong background in the banking domain to join our team in Abu Dhabi. This critical role focuses on enhancing the resilience, high availability, and fault tolerance of our mission-critical banking platforms. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in distributed systems and have a proven track record of implementing robust resilience patterns.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement advanced resilience patterns, including retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, failover strategies, timeout handling, and graceful degradation techniques.
• Improve overall availability, recoverability, and fault tolerance across various critical banking platforms and applications.
• Analyze incidents and recurring failures systematically, implementing permanent fixes and preventative measures.
• Implement comprehensive resilience controls for APIs, messaging systems, databases, and external integrations.
• Enhance monitoring, alerting, health checks, and automated recovery processes to ensure system stability.
• Develop and execute failover and disaster recovery test scenarios to validate system robustness.
• Collaborate effectively with architecture, infrastructure, support, and vendor teams to ensure seamless integration and operational excellence.
• Document technical designs, operational procedures, runbooks, and facilitate knowledge transfer within the team.
• Contribute to reducing recurring incidents and eliminating single points of failure across the banking infrastructure.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of professional software development experience, with at least 3 years dedicated to application resilience, high availability, distributed systems, or mission-critical platforms.
• Proficiency in Java/J2EE and Spring Boot, with experience in resilience libraries such as Resilience4j or Hystrix.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and messaging queues like IBM MQ, Kafka, or AMQ.
• Extensive experience with REST APIs, API gateways, and database technologies including Oracle and PL/SQL, with expertise in SQL tuning.
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.
• Proven experience in high-availability banking or payments systems, including implementing resilience improvements and fault-tolerance controls.
• Ability to enhance monitoring and automated recovery systems, and a track record of reducing recurring incidents.
• Preferred qualifications include Oracle Java certification, RHCE, AWS or Azure developer/architect certifications, ITIL Foundation, or CKAD.
• Familiarity with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, GitHub, SonarQube, Postman, Eclipse, and Dynatrace.

What We Offer

• An engaging 12-month contract opportunity with potential for extension in a dynamic banking environment.
• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and critical banking platforms.
• A collaborative work environment with opportunities to work alongside experienced professionals.
• Contribution to mission-critical systems that impact real-world banking operations.