Security-Minded Software Engineer (Zero-Trust Architecture / Microsoft Stack) – Safe City Group
You will design, develop, and maintain backend and system-level components aligned with approved enterprise architecture, security standards, and governance frameworks. You’ll deliver features that meet functional and non-functional requirements, follow secure coding practices, and integrate cleanly across our ecosystem: Azure, APIs, databases, and CI/CD pipelines.
You will operate within defined architectural boundaries and collaborate with Architects, Product Owners, QA, DevSecOps, and business stakeholders to ship high-quality, scalable, secure solutions. You must have a secure-by-design mindset (OWASP Top 10, RBAC, identity integration) for this role.
Role Purpose
Design, build, and maintain backend/system-level components aligned with architectural standards.
About the project
We’re taking ownership of a large, mission-critical enterprise platform currently operated by an external vendor. The system is live and security-sensitive, and we’re modernizing it over time:
- Primary backend stack: C# / .NET (6+), with most new work on .NET 8 (LTS)
- Legacy areas exist: ASP.NET Framework 4.8 and some WCF
- Cloud: Microsoft Azure
- Data: SQL Server primarily, some MySQL
- Frontend exists (React/Angular), but this role is backend/system-level
- Documentation is mixed due to the transition; part of the work is improving clarity as you go.
Core Responsibilities
1) Software Development & Implementation
- Develop backend services, APIs, and system components based on approved backlog items and technical designs.
- Translate user stories and functional requirements into scalable solutions.
- Implement business logic following clean architecture and principles.
- Follow coding standards, architectural guidelines, and agreed design patterns.
2) Code Quality & Maintainability
- Write clean, maintainable, testable, well-documented code.
- Perform peer reviews and address review feedback.
- Refactor legacy code where needed to improve performance and maintainability.
- Maintain strong version control discipline: branching strategy, pull requests, merges.
3) Testing & Quality Assurance
- Develop and maintain unit tests using approved frameworks (xUnit / NUnit / MSTest).
- Use mocking frameworks appropriately (e.g., Moq/NSubstitute equivalents).
- Participate in integration testing and support QA during testing cycles.
- Meet quality gates (coverage/standards) before release.
- Support debugging, root-cause analysis, and defect resolution.
4) Security & Compliance
- Apply secure coding practices aligned with OWASP Top 10.
- Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities; follow DevSecOps quality controls.
- Correctly handle authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection.
- Implement RBAC and identity-based access patterns (JWT/OAuth2; Entra ID integration where applicable).
- Comply with mandatory SAST scanning gates prior to release.
5) Performance & Reliability
- Optimize database queries and system performance (SQL Server/MySQL).
- Build scalable, resilient services and APIs.
- Implement logging/monitoring/exception handling best practices (e.g., Application Insights, Serilog).
- Use performance profiling techniques when needed to diagnose bottlenecks.
6) DevOps & Deployment Support
- Support CI/CD pipeline integration and delivery workflows (Azure DevOps).
- Assist in staging and production deployments under governance checkpoints.
- Participate in troubleshooting production incidents when required.
7) Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with Solution Architects, Product Owners, QA, DevSecOps, and UI/UX teams.
- Escalate technical risks and architectural concerns early and clearly.
Authority
- Own implementation decisions within approved architectural boundaries.
- Cannot redefine scope or bypass architecture/security standards.
- Must escalate technical risks, architectural concerns, or scope-impacting issues to the Architect and Product Owner.
- Cannot approve production deployment outside defined governance checkpoints.
Job Details
| Posted Date: | 2026-03-12 |
| Job Location: | United Arab Emirates – Abu Dhabi |
| Job Role: | Information Technology |
| Monthly Salary: | US $3,000 |
Preferred Candidate
| Career Level: | Management |
| Degree: | Master’s degree |
