Senior Java Developer - Dubai client

Xebia is a global AI-first, digital transformation, and engineering partner. With over 25 years of experience and a team of 5,000 professionals across 16 countries, we help organizations design and build scalable products, platforms, and data-driven solutions. We specialize in Artificial Intelligence, Data and Cloud, Intelligent Automation, and Digital Products, combining deep technical expertise with a strong focus on engineering excellence and a people-first culture. In the CEE region, we’re a team of nearly 1,000 experts delivering modern applications, data platforms, and AI solutions for clients such as McLaren, Aviva, Deloitte, Spotify, Disney, ING, UPS, Tesco, Truecaller, AllSaints, Volotea, Schmitz Cargobull, Allegro, InPost, and many, many more. We work with leading technologies including AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, and Snowflake, and combine strong engineering culture with a consulting mindset and a continuous focus on growth and knowledge sharing. You will be:using Agile engineering practices and various software and web development technologies to rapidly develop creative and efficient solutions that enhance the client customer and employee experience, working with other team members to craft clear user stories, design tests for prototypes and products, and continuously deliver product enhancements, liaising with other teams within and outside the Digital unit to negotiate timelines, deliverables and dependencies, collaborating closely with Product Owners, Designers and team members to identify and socialize product and delivery risks, driving forward and role-model best practice engineering processes and Agile behavior and ensuring teams members follow suit, communicating with business stakeholders about Agile processes to set and manage expectations about delivery methods and timelines, owning and drive best practice in terms of automation such as continuous integration and deployment.

Your profile:client location: Dubai – occasional on-site travel required (a few weeks per year in total),at least 7+ years of software development experience working in Agile teams, extensive experience with Java 7/8, Java EE, Spring framework including Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Messaging, JPA, ORM, Maven and other open-source java frameworks, full stack engineering skills with a passion for mentoring other team members, expertise in developing cloud native microservices and event-driven systems using Java, strong knowledge of integration gateways, monitoring tools, and observability platforms such as grafana, excellent knowledge of elasticsearch, Redis, Mongodb, and Apache Kafka, good understanding of infrastructure components including restful APIs, Single sign-on, Oauth, ldap, and search technologies, hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes, solid experience with git (branching, merging, tagging, pull requests),practical experience with ci/cd tools such as Jenkins or similar, excellent knowledge of sql and at least one common relational database (oracle, mssql, mysql),experience in code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous deployment, highly scalable applications, and application security, working knowledge of designing and building distributed applications, familiarity with devops practices and infrastructure as code, experience with at least one unit testing framework such as junit, practical experience using AI-powered assistants (e.g. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to improve productivity, quality, or decision-making in software delivery.

Nice to have:familiarity with functional programming concepts, experience applying GenAI in a more structured way within the SDLC, including defined workflows, prompt patterns, or tool integrations embedded into daily work, Interest in and familiarity with emerging AI-driven practices (e.g. agent-based workflows, automation patterns, AI-augmented development), with a willingness to explore and experiment beyond standard approaches.

Work from the European Union region and a work permit are required.

Recruitment Process:

CV review – HR call – Technical Interview – Client Interview – Decision