Job Opportunity in UAE as an Engineering Lead, Software - Java

Unifonic offers a job opportunity in UAE as an Engineering Lead, Software - Java. You will play an active part in the hands-on process of building software, and managing your own team. You must have a technical background to be a good counsel and advocate for engineering as well as contributing production-facing code on a regular basis. You must have management skills, with the responsibility of your own team. You will report to the Engineering Manager who will support you in both technical and management areas.

You will be responsible for:

• Support with recruitment & hiring of engineering talent and facilitate the on-boarding of new team members.
• Work with other engineering teams to identify and anticipate changing requirements and opportunities to improve the development environment.
• Work with product managers, designers, and engineers to prioritize, plan, and schedule work.
• Provide technical and non-technical guidance to the team, both individually and as a group.
• Facilitate continuous learning and improvement for the team and its members.

You must have:

• Hands-on 7+ years of relevant engineering work experience and 4+ hands-on technical management experience in shipping large-scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams.
• Hands-on 5+ years of experience as a JAVA Developer and 5+ years in database management (MySQL, Casandra...etc).
• Be able to spend substantial time interfacing with the offshore teams on a daily basis.
• Fluent in English with excellent writing/editing and verbal communication skills.

It's nice to have:

• Practical experience in queuing systems/Message Brokers like (Beanstalk, SQS, etc...).
• Practical experience with cache technologies (Memcached, Redis).
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Software, or a related discipline or the equivalent.
• Strong attention to detail while maintaining sight of the big picture.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to apply business logic to development requirements in a creative manner.
• Familiar with SaaS and PaaS integration architecture and applications.
• General knowledge in telecommunications (SMSC, VOIP, SMPP, etc...).

About Unifonic:

Unifonic was founded in 2006 to provide cloud-based communication tools to business customers and enables integration of text and voice-based solutions through its API platform. Therefore, Unifonic eliminates the need for costly hardware infrastructure making business communication simple, fast, and cost-effective.

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