Job Overview
Lead Software Engineer responsible for building high-quality solutions for the Payments Team at Sabre. Plan, design, develop, and test software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products, including cloud-based or internet-related tools.
Responsibilities
- Developing high-quality code with consistent technical artifacts.
- Ensuring software meets all quality, security, extensibility, and data privacy requirements.
- Diagnosing system failures and production issues, working with technical staff to identify and address root causes.
- Ensuring non‑functional mandates, compliance, and security requirements are met.
- Implementing new components and subsystems as per the design documents provided by architects.
- Eliciting functional and non‑functional requirements from subject matter experts.
- Collaborating with Product, solutions and systems teams across multiple locations.
- Owning the development of technical documentation.
- Staying current with new technologies and tools.
- Applying industry best engineering practices.
- Applying broad knowledge of technical solutions to solve challenging assignments.
- Adhering to the guidelines shared by the lead and architects.
Job Requirements
- MS/MTech, BE/BTech in computer science or related fields.
- Excellent programming skills with 5+ years of professional experience in Java development.
- High ethical standards, mutual respect, and the ability to work across global teams.
- Proven ability to engineer stable, fault‑tolerant, high‑performance, well‑instrumented, compliant, and "Always On" systems in high‑transactional global distributed environments.
- Exposure to design patterns, software engineering best practices, Agile SDLC, build and deployment tools, and CI/CD practices.
- Good understanding of non‑functional requirements.
- Excellent knowledge of software and application design, solutioning, and engineering.
- Exceptional hands‑on skills in Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, RDBMS, NoSQL, and OOAD.
- Proficiency with SOAP, REST, RESTful, JSON‑RPC, JMS, SOA/EDA, and Microservices Architecture, client‑server and distributed systems, and Enterprise Integration methodology and standards.
- Practical knowledge of cloud technologies (GCP is a plus) and application containerization.
- Proven analytical and problem‑solving skills in engineering.
- Experience with SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and cloud migration.
- Understanding of web/application servers like Tomcat.
- Familiarity with integration frameworks.
- Knowledge of rule engines.
- Experience in JVM monitoring, diagnostics, and tuning.
- Proficiency in Test‑Driven Development.
- Experience in networking, system monitoring, and problem diagnostics.
- Knowledge of command‑line tools and scripting (bash, Python, or others).
- Understanding of presentation technologies (HTML, JavaScript, jQuery).
- Proficient in presentation and distributed cache technologies.
- Excellent communication skills for seamless collaboration with stakeholders, extended teams, and customers.
- Highly motivated team player with a deep understanding of business needs.
- Committed to continuous development and learning.
- Knowledge of the payment domain is a plus.
- Hands‑on experience with AI technologies and MCP servers.
Reasonable Accommodation
Sabre is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. Applicants applying for a Sabre position with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact Sabre at recruiting@careers.sabre.com. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case‑by‑case basis.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Sabre is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to providing employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans and disabled individuals. EEO IS THE LAW.