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COMPANY INTRODUCTIONEmirates NBD is a market leader across the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye) region with a presence in 13 countries, serving over 20 million customers. The Emirates NBD Group has a total of 853 branches and 4,213 ATMs / SDMs. Emirates NBD is the leading financial services brand in the UAE with a Brand value of USD 3.89 billion.At the bank, we serve our customers and help them realise their financial objectives through a range of banking products and services including retail banking, corporate & institutional banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, private banking, asset management, global markets and treasury, and brokerage operations.We are a key participant in the global digital banking industry, with 97% of all financial transactions and requests conducted outside of our branches. We also operate Liv, the lifestyle digital bank by Emirates NBD. With close to half a million users, it continues to be the fastest-growing digital bank in the region.JOB PURPOSEThe Lead Software Engineer – Node.js is a senior-level role that involves designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software applications and systems. He/she also manages and mentors other software engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, and practices software engineering and applies best practices and principles to deliver high quality, maintainable, reusable, reliable, performant, and scalable software on schedule.KEY REQUIREMENTSEducationDegree, Postgraduate in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent industry experience)ExperiencesMinimum 12 years of software engineering experience and at least 5-8 years of application development and integrations in microservices environment using NodeJS.Expert in JavaScript & TypeScript & MongoDB.At least 5 years of team leading experience in respective technology.Good to have Java and Shell scripting knowledge.Hands-on experience in performance tuning, debugging, monitoring.Good experience on Test Driven Development and Automation testing using Playwright or Selenium is preferred.Deep knowledge of waterfall and agile development practices in general as well as in specific areas of development. Understanding of containerization, experienced in Dockers, Kubernetes. Technical SkillsExtensive coding experience with SOLID principles, Event Driven Architecture, NodeJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, GraphQL, Databases (preferably MongoDB) and have passion for coding.Exposed to API gateway integrations like 3Scale, Kong etc.Ability to play leadership role in the technical design of new systems/applications.Good hands-on experience with cloud design patterns and their implementation. Well-versed with CI/CD principles, and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem Familiar with distributed services resiliency and monitoring in a production environment.Understanding of Single-Sign-on or token-based authentication (Rest, JWT, OAuth)Possess expert knowledge of task/message queues include but not limited to: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Pushpin and Kafka.Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies.Experiencing in sizing development effort based on functional and non-functional requirements.Ability to Coach/mentor software engineers in the coding, configuration, and unit testing of new systems/applications.Stays on top of technology trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies.Functional SkillsExperience in Banking, Financial and Fintech experience in an enterprise environment preferred.Experience in following best Coding, Security, Unit testing and Documentation standards and practices.Experience in Agile methodology.Ensure quality of technical and application architecture and design of systems across the organization.Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best in class technologies. Soft SkillsAble to influence multiple teams on technical considerations, increasing their productivity and effectiveness, by sharing deep knowledge and experience.Self-motivator and self-starter.Ability to own and drive things without supervision and works collaboratively with the teams across the organization.Have excellent soft skills and interpersonal skills to interact and present the ideas to Senior and Executive Management.WHY JOIN US?We aspire to be an employee’s employer of choice. We believe, we can help you realize your true potential by providing the right opportunities. At ENBD we are reimagining the future of work so that you can unlock your potential, every day we want to ensure, every employee can exceed in the future of work by upskilling, building new digital skills and knowledge. Our goal is to empower our employees to build a career experiences and skills they need in the future and that will produce a great outcome for our bank as well, we want our employees no matter their background, location, preferences to feel engaged to one ENBD team.We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. ENBD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, however due to high volume of applicants, only SHORTLISTED candidates will be contacted.