What Jobs are available for Senior Developer Roles in the United Arab Emirates?

1. Job purpose

We are looking for sharp senior, mid-level and junior Full Stack Developers to play a key role in an agile collaborative team building Layer 3 (API) networks and applications including front-end portals and mobile apps. Dedicated UX/UI developers without back-end experience can also be considered for specific roles.

We follow rapid development and deployment cycles for projects and share ownership of the entire codebase, so you will get great experience across a variety of exchange applications and financial product types relating to Software, Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service. We care about the code that we write and we want developers that are more interested in writing clean, maintainable, efficient code rather than a quick hack. Good DevOps experience also preferable. There is also an opportunity to team lead for a suitable candidate.

Any former experience with specific cryptocurrencies, and/or related skills such as decentralized finance (DeFi), tokenisation, trading, matching engine, clearing and settlement as well as capital markets system integration will be a very useful complement to the above.

2. Key technology used

• Primary : Lambda’s on Kubernetes
• Secondary : Java 8+
• Cloud: AWS
• Cloud HSM
• DynamoDB
• MSK
• REST APIs
• FIX
• HTML/CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery
• JMS (ActiveMQ)
• HyperLedger Fabric
• Ethereum
• JVM in Rust
• QLDB
• UX design tools (Sketch, Invision, Figma, XD, etc.)
• Adobe Creative Cloud

3. Methodology

• Agile / Scrum
• Continuous integration
• Test automation
• TDD

4. Requirements

• Must have
• Java for business logic
• Cloudformation for IaaC
• Docker
• UI/UX skills
• Understanding of peer-to-peer networks
• Passion for writing clean, re-usable code
• Desire to learn
• GitHub

• Nice to have
• Core Java SE
• High throughput, low latency systems
• Financial markets
• FIX
• Spring
• Hibernate
• Complex event processing / EPL
• SQL

5. Company culture

We provide best of breed trading venue and post-trade solutions to global financial markets and have clients across the globe and across multiple asset types. We value keen, bright people who want to make a difference to a project and who want to learn and expand their abilities.

Being a fast-growing, agile company, we are not stifled by the red tape that can tie up larger organisations and we are able to give staff the opportunity to contribute or to assume leadership for new approaches and initiatives - the only limitation will be your ambition!

About GMEX Group Limited

GMEX is a global market infrastructure vendor providing multi-asset trading, exchange matching engine and post-trade business technology solutions centred around a core “Hub & Spoke” proposition:

GMEX MultiHub Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS): A cloud based digital ‘multi-asset network of networks’ trading and post trade digital market infrastructure platform, with API’s to interconnect and enable 3rd party services for multiple financial participants across traditional and digital asset markets.

GMEX Fusion (Software and SaaS): A hybrid (traditional and digital) exchange and post trade technology software product suite to enable 3rd party financial venue “spoke” nodes into the MultiHub PaaS cloud.

Our MultiHub PaaS + Fusion SaaS = Ecosystem-as-a-Service (EsaaS) enables us to digitally transform global financial markets with a focus on technology and interconnectivity.

Using two proven engagement mechanisms, we enable our clients to use technology to achieve their commercial goals:

Market Advancement Programme (MAP) , delivering multi-asset exchange and post-trade enablement with an optimal combination of traditional and digital market infrastructure technology and services. Partnership-driven approach , we do not just sell technology, rather we use a combination of fintech, business and investment solutions empowering partnerships and ventures.

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Job purpose

We are looking for sharp senior and mid-level blockchain MPC Developers to to play a key role in an agile collaborative team-building peer-to-peer Layer 2 blockchain and Layer 3 (API) networks. We follow rapid development and deployment cycles for projects and share ownership of the entire codebase, so you will get experience across a variety of exchange applications and financial project types relating to Software, Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service.

We care about the code that we write and we want developers that are more interested in writing clean, maintainable, efficient code rather than a quick hack.

There is an opportunity to team lead for a suitable candidate.

Any former experience with specific cryptocurrencies, and/or related skills such as decentralized finance (DeFi), tokenisation, trading, matching engine, clearing and settlement, as well as capital markets system integration will be a very useful complement to the above.

Key technology used

• Primary : Tendermint / Cosmos Golang
• Primary (cont.): Multi-Party Computation Threshold Signature Scheme (MPC-TSS)
• Primary : Cloud: AWS and Azure
• Primary : Ethereum
• Primary : JVM in Rust
• Primary : Hibernate (Postgres)
• Primary : SVN / GIT
• Primary : JPMS/ESL (Esper)
• Primary : JMS (ActiveMQ)
• Primary : HyperLedger Fabric
• Secondary : Java 8+
• Secondary : FIX
• Secondary : Sockets
• Secondary : Linux
• Secondary : Maven
• Secondary : Spring
• Secondary : SQL

Methodology

• Agile / Scrum
• Continuous integration
• Test automation
• TDD

Requirements

• Must have :
• Golang
• Elixir
• RabbitMQ
• Understanding of cryptography and peer-to-peer networks
• Desire to learn
• Passion for writing clean, re-usable code
• Complex event processing / EPL
• SQL
• GitHub
• Docker

• Nice to have :
• Core Java SE
• High throughput, low latency systems
• Financial markets
• FIX
• Spring
• Hibernate
• Espera (Esper)
• Mercury/ETL tools

Company culture

We provide best of breed trading venue and post-trade solutions to global financial markets and have clients across the globe and across multiple asset types. We value keen, bright people who want to make a difference to a project and who want to learn and expand their abilities.

Being a fast-growing, agile company, we are not stifled by the red tape that can tie up larger organisations and we are able to give staff the opportunity to contribute or to assume leadership for new approaches and initiatives - the only limitation will be your ambition!

About GMEX Group Limited

GMEX is a global market infrastructure vendor providing multi-asset trading, exchange matching engine and post-trade business technology solutions centred around a core “Hub & Spoke” proposition:

GMEX MultiHub Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS): A cloud based digital ‘multi-asset network of networks’ trading and post trade digital market infrastructure platform, with API’s to interconnect and enable 3rd party services for multiple financial participants across traditional and digital asset markets.

GMEX Fusion (Software and SaaS): A hybrid (traditional and digital) exchange and post trade technology software product suite to enable 3rd party financial venue “spoke” nodes into the MultiHub PaaS cloud.

Our MultiHub PaaS + Fusion SaaS = Ecosystem-as-a-Service (EsaaS) enables us to digitally transform global financial markets with a focus on technology and interconnectivity.

Using two proven engagement mechanisms, we enable our clients to use technology to achieve their commercial goals:

Market Advancement Programme (MAP) , delivering multi-asset exchange and post-trade enablement with an optimal combination of traditional and digital market infrastructure technology and services.

Partnership-driven approach , we do not just sell technology, rather we use a combination of fintech, business and investment solutions empowering partnerships and ventures.

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Posted 5 days ago

Full time

Dubai, AE

Senior

Salary Range: To be discussed

Full Job Description

Summary

InvestSky streamlines investing for the MENA region, enabling social interaction, market insights, and portfolio creation. Key tasks include scalable solutions, data models, and architecture innovations.

About InvestSky

We're on a mission to make investing accessible to all. Our goal is to offer an all-in-one investing solution. With InvestSky, people no longer have to get lost in multiple apps, drown in fragmented communities across social media in search of investment insights, or pay high fees to make an investment. InvestSky offers an all-in-one solution to a more efficient and enjoyable investing journey for MENA investors, both new and experienced.

With InvestSky you can:

1. Mingle: get social, meet like-minded folk, follow friends, exchange ideas.
2. Discover: build your knowledge and understand the market with our advanced tools to gain insights.
3. Create: buy your favourite stocks and build your portfolio.

We are looking for someone passionate about building the next big thing and making a true impact in the region.

Key Responsibilities

1. Implement high-quality solutions in a timely manner, designed and built to last and to scale.
2. Translate designs and wireframes into API skeletons and component architectures.
3. Identify new libraries/patterns/platforms that we should study/adopt to continuously improve our architecture.
4. Prototype new features and wireframes cross-functionally with the product team.
5. Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
6. Design scalable data models and architecture.
7. Contribute to planning roadmaps and integration plans.
8. Conduct cost, performance, and security assessments.
9. Demonstrate strong computer science fundamentals in system design, data structures, and algorithms.
10. Show strong proficiency in database design and software architecture.
11. Exhibit strong expertise in Python.
12. Have experience with writing and maintaining unit tests.
13. Demonstrate strong proficiency in server languages and frameworks, understanding their pros and cons.
14. Possess SQL/NoSQL databases and database architecture skills.
15. Have hands-on experience with cloud platforms (strong experience with GCP is a plus).

Accountability and Ownership: A self-driven individual who can build and maintain high-scale projects end to end.

Nice-to-have

1. Familiarity with container orchestration systems (preferably Kubernetes).
2. Experience in implementing consumer-facing services at early-stage startups.
3. Basic understanding of the financial and investment ecosystems.

Compensation and Benefits

Market-standard compensation; generous Employee Stock Ownership Plan in line with our belief that our employees should be owners of the company and not just contributors; you'll never have to pay for our premium paid plans. Join us as part of a founding team building something revolutionary in FinTech in the region.

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Posted: 3 days ago

Employment Type: Full time

Location: Dubai, AE

Level: Senior

Salary Range: To be discussed

Company Overview

InvestSky simplifies investing with an all-in-one platform for MENA investors. We're hiring passionate individuals to build scalable solutions and contribute to FinTech innovation in the region.

About InvestSky

We're on a mission to make investing accessible to all. Our goal is to offer an all-in-one investing solution. With InvestSky, people no longer have to get lost in multiple apps, drown in fragmented communities across social media in search of investment insights, or pay high fees to make an investment. InvestSky offers an all-in-one solution to a more efficient and enjoyable investing journey for the MENA investors, both new and experienced ones.

With InvestSky, you can:

1. Mingle: get social, meet like-minded folk, follow friends, exchange ideas
2. Discover: build your knowledge and understand the market with our advanced tools to gain insights
3. Create: buy your favourite stocks and build your portfolio

We are looking for someone passionate about building the next big thing and making a true impact in the region.

Key Responsibilities

1. Implement high-quality solutions in a timely manner, designed and built to last and to scale.
2. Translate designs and wire-frames into API skeletons and component architectures.
3. Identify new libraries/patterns/platforms that we should study/adopt to continuously improve our architecture.
4. Prototype new features and wire-frames cross-functionally with the product team.
5. Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
6. Design scalable data models and architecture.
7. Contribute to planning, roadmaps, and integration plans.
8. Conduct cost, performance, and security assessments.

Required Qualifications

1. Strong computer science fundamentals in system design, data structures, algorithms.
2. Strong proficiency in Database Design and Software Architecture.
3. Strong expertise in Python.
4. Experience with writing and maintaining unit tests.
5. Strong proficiency in server languages, frameworks and understanding their pros & cons.
6. SQL / NoSQL databases and Database architecture skills.
7. Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (strong experience with GCP is a plus).
8. Accountability and Ownership: Self-driven individual who can build and maintain high scale projects end to end.

Nice-to-have

1. Familiarity with container orchestration systems (preferably Kubernetes).
2. Experience in implementing consumer-facing services at early-stage startups.
3. Basic understanding of the financial and investment ecosystems.

Compensation and Benefits

Market-standard compensation; generous Employee Stock Ownership Plan in line with our belief that our employees should be owners of the company and not just contributors; you'll never have to pay for our premium paid plans. Being part of a founding team building something revolutionary in FinTech in the region.

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Software Development Engineer Frontend - InvestSky

Full time

Dubai, AE

Senior

Salary Range: To be discussed

About InvestSky

We're on a mission to make investing accessible to all. Our goal is to offer an all-in-one investing solution. With InvestSky, people no longer have to get lost in multiple apps, drown in fragmented communities across social media in search of investment insights, or pay high fees to make an investment. InvestSky offers an all-in-one solution to a more efficient and enjoyable investing journey for the MENA investors, both new and experienced ones.

With InvestSky you can:

1. Mingle: get social, meet like-minded folk, follow friends, exchange ideas
2. Discover: build your knowledge and understand the market with our advanced tools to gain insights
3. Create: buy your favourite stocks and build your portfolio

We are looking for someone passionate about building the next big thing and making a true impact in the region.

Key Responsibilities

1. Implement high-quality solutions in a timely manner, designed and built to last and to scale.
2. Study the API design and give feedback on the structure for optimized implementation on frontend.
3. Identify new libraries/patterns/platforms that we should study/adopt to continuously improve our architecture.
4. Prototyping new features and wireframes cross-functionally with the product team.
5. Contribute to planning roadmaps and integration plans.

Nice to have

1. Experience in implementing consumer-facing products at early-stage startups.
2. Basic understanding of the financial and investment ecosystems.

Market-standard compensation;

Generous Employee Stock Ownership Plan in line with our belief that our employees should be owners of the company and not just contributors;

You'll never have to pay for our premium paid plans ;) Being part of a founding team building something revolutionary in FinTech in the region.

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The Role
Charterhouse is representing a confidential client building a next-generation AI-enhanced Network Operating System (NOS) from the ground up. This is a greenfield opportunity free from legacy constraints and uncompromising on quality. The opportunity is open to a Principal SDET ready to lead testing strategy or a Senior SDET focused on scalable automation. The role provides the chance to shape how modern networking software is validated at scale. The SDET plays a key role in ensuring networking software performs reliably in real-world, not only in controlled environments but also under the pressure of massive data flows and complex deployments. This role provides a rare opportunity to work on a brand-new NOS platform, free from legacy constraints, where quality is built in from the start and testing is treated as a first-class engineering discipline. As a Principal SDET, responsibilities include defining and implementing the testing strategy for networking software powering global infrastructure, working directly with the CTO to architect systems that validate everything from microsecond-level packet processing to network-wide protocol convergence. The position involves developing automated testing systems that can keep pace of a fast-moving, next-generation NOS. Core activities include writing tests to ensure protocols like BGP, OSPF, and MPLS perform as expected and meet with industry standards. The role requires direct involvement with CI/CD pipelines to identity and resolve issues before they reach production, as well as designing realistic network simulations to test system limits. Close collaboration with engineering teams to build quality checks directly into new features from the start.

Requirements
The ideal candidate for SDET should have strong Python programming skills with the ability to write test code that is clean, extensible, and maintainable. A solid grasp of networking fundamentals is essential, along with experience using test frameworks like Pytest or Nose. Proficiency with Linux systems, containers, virtualization, and OS-level debugging is required, as well as experience with CI/CD experience and a tenacious approach to debugging. For Principal-level candidates, a minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience in testing or quality engineering is expected, ideally with a background in large-scale systems. A strong understanding of networking, advanced Python skills and proven expertise in testing distributed environments effectively are essential. Knowledge of performance testing and experience building CI/CD pipelines for software that needs to run reliably in production are also highly valued. The role requires the capability to design test frameworks that simplify complex validation scenarios and to build network simulations that reflect production-level complexity. Candidate must be able to debug deep system interactions and design testing approaches that provide actionable insights into system behavior. Experience in establishing scalable quality processes is advantageous. Additional strengths include experience validating routing protocols in production environments, stress-testing systems at scale and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Ansible or Terraform. Network simulation expertise using GNS3, EVE-NG, or custom frameworks is also highly desirable. Contributions to open-source testing frameworks and a history of building quality-focused engineering cultures are strong differentiators. Alongside the technical skills, excellent verbal and communication skills in English are essential.

About the company
The Charterhouse brand and business was launched in Dubai and the Middle East in April 2004 by a team of international recruiters and management consultants, after its inception in Sydney, Australia in September 2003. Charterhouse Middle East is now positioned as the leading regional recruiter within its area of disciplines and functional markets. Charterhouse offers professional and bespoke contingency and retained search services to all sectors of the market. Service quality is guaranteed, thanks to a particular focus on flexibility. Charterhouse was the first international search and selection business to establish Dubai as its base. The growth in the Middle East region has been mirrored by Charterhouse globally, with offices now in Qatar, Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney.

Overview

Design, develop, and deploy AI/ML models to solve business problems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for AI integration , translate client requirements into scalable AI-powered solutions , and provide consulting expertise on AI strategies, tools, and implementation. Stay up to date with the latest AI/ML frameworks, tools, and industry trends , ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI/ML models to solve business problems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for AI integration .
• Translate client requirements into scalable AI-powered solutions .
• Provide consulting expertise on AI strategies, tools, and implementation.
• Stay up to date with the latest AI/ML frameworks, tools, and industry trends .
• Ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with business goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI/ML, or related field .
• Strong programming skills in Python, R, or similar languages .
• Experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, or other AI frameworks .
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for AI/ML solutions.
• Excellent problem-solving and consulting skills .
• Strong communication and ability to present AI solutions to non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects .
• Collaborative and innovative work environment .
• Career growth and continuous learning opportunities .
• Be part of an international, forward-thinking team .

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Join Canonical as a Software Engineer to develop open-source solutions with Python and Kubernetes, enhancing cloud business operations and driving collaborative engineering.

Description

Join Canonical to develop open-source solutions using Python and Kubernetes, enhancing business operations on public clouds and data centers. Promote collaborative engineering in a diverse workplace.

Description
Our mission is to reinvent the way companies manage their open source information systems - on public clouds and in their own data centres. To achieve that we are building a new community around Python opscode for open source applications, running on Kubernetes. We want to move all of Canonical and Ubuntu IS onto this new, open source codebase. We are confident that we can dramatically improve the experience of running complex business operations - and then we can help our customers embrace those new techniques and products.

This role is ideal for software engineers who enjoy Python, have a passion for distributed systems, and an interest in the entire Linux stack - from kernel to networking to virtualization and containers. It is a role that requires rigour in both code and customer interactions. Our engineers are technically astute open source enthusiasts who are excited about cloud computing and are ready to join a global team charged with delivering world class services to our customers. Strong Python development skills and familiarity with Kubernetes are key requirements of this role. You'll work closely with other teams in Canonical to ensure your products operate reliably, efficiently and scale to production sized workloads for our customers looking to adopt cutting-edge technology.

You will participate and be responsible for ensuring sound software architecture and follow best practices in software quality, testing and documentation.

What you'll do:
Work in Python to design and deliver open source software operations code
Work across the entire Linux stack, from kernel, networking, storage, to applications
Learn to think rigorously about application and infrastructure reliability
Shape high quality open source monitoring and alerting infrastructure
Simplify open source operations for our customers and open source community
Demonstrate sound engineering design and testing principles in your code
Follow agile software development practices
Coach and develop your colleagues where you have insights
Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with company values
Work from home with global travel once or twice a year for up to 2 weeks for events

Who you are:
You love technology and working with brilliant people
You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
You are experienced with Linux systems administration, package management, and operations
You have hands-on experience with at least one public cloud
You are familiar with Docker and Kubernetes
You are an experienced Python programmer and enjoy challenging projects
You understand the importance of reliable software and strive to design and code to that expectation
You are organized and want your team to deliver timely, high quality software

About Canonical:
Canonical is a growing international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world's best free software platform. Our mission is to realise the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organisations. Our services are helping individuals and businesses worldwide to reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration.

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Distributed Systems Software Engineer, Python / Go

Dubai, AE

Senior

Salary Range: To be discussed

Summary

Software Engineer role at Canonical: Build resilient systems using Ubuntu/Juju, develop CI pipelines, and enhance cloud solutions. Remote role, modern testing, Python/Go skills needed.

Description

We are seeking a software engineer with a passion for building and validating resilient distributed systems. At Canonical you can build a career and drive the success of those leveraging Canonical's Ubuntu and Juju to build multi-cloud deployable cloud applications.

We see quality engineering as a first class engineering practice and are looking for people who can bring deep engineering insights and a data driven approach to test automation, reporting and data analytics.

The Distributed Systems testing team at Canonical is responsible for ensuring the high quality of Canonical's Cloud solutions based on Juju, Terraform, OpenStack, Kubernetes when deployed under highly diverse conditions, from bare metal in customer data centers to public clouds like AWS, GCE, Azure.

As a software engineer you will have the opportunity to develop CI pipelines which power Canonical's cloud integration testing and reporting. Upcoming initiatives you will have the opportunity to contribute to include expanding deployment capabilities to new clouds and developing AI/ML pipelines for automatic analysis of test results. A successful candidate is interested in tackling these problems, as well as imagining and leading new initiatives within the team and across Canonical.

Location

This is a Globally remote role

What your day will look like

1. Create automated testing approaches and infrastructure for validating reliability, performance, and resilience of cloud orchestration tools and applications
2. Enable engineering teams across Canonical to develop software with confidence by making distributed system testing tooling available across the company
3. Enhance continuous integration pipelines for deploying and testing Canonical's cloud native products such as Kubeflow
4. Deploy, manage, and debug highly distributed systems
5. Monitor and report on automated testing efforts
6. Collaborate daily with a globally distributed team

What we are looking for in you

1. Solid background in modern test processes and strategies
2. Experience with Python or Go development
3. Strong object oriented development skills
4. Ability to develop and ship production grade modern web applications
5. Working knowledge of continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub CI
6. Knowledge of networking technologies and fundamentals
7. Solid understanding of Linux system architecture
8. A capacity for complex abstract thinking
9. Capability for 2-4 weeks of international travel per year

Additional skills that you might also bring

1. Collecting and analyzing large multidimensional datasets
2. Operating data platforms: key-value stores, relational or document databases, event buses
3. Work with cloud technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS
4. Developing AI/ML pipelines

What we offer you

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we've been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events

Canonical believes a diverse workforce enhances our ability to deliver world class software and services which meet the world's computing needs. We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Interested?

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