Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer to lead the design and development of scalable, secure, and highly available enterprise applications and middleware services and airline domain experience
The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, Middleware/Integration technologies, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) . The role requires a combination of technical leadership, architecture/design ownership, hands-on development, troubleshooting, and mentoring .
The engineer will work closely with architects, product owners, engineering teams, DevOps/SRE, and dependent systems to deliver reliable cloud-native solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Architecture
Lead technical design and implementation of Java/Spring Boot-based microservices and middleware applications .
Translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical solutions using AI
Define service boundaries, API contracts, integration patterns, and application architecture.
Conduct design and code reviews and establish engineering best practices.
Evaluate technical trade-offs around scalability, performance, resiliency, maintainability, and cost.
Provide technical direction to engineers and mentor junior and mid-level developers.
Drive technical discussions across dependent application and platform teams.
Java & Microservices AI Development
Design and develop production-grade applications using Java 17/21, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, and Spring Cloud .
Build and maintain RESTful APIs and event-driven services.
Implement microservice patterns including: API Gateway
Circuit Breaker
Retry/Timeout
Service Discovery
Distributed configuration
Event-driven architecture
Idempotency
Caching
Distributed tracing
Apply appropriate design patterns and SOLID principles.
Develop effective unit, integration, component, and contract tests using tools such as JUnit, Mockito, WireMock, and Testcontainers .
Middleware & Integration
Design integrations between enterprise applications using REST, JSON, XML, messaging, and event-driven patterns .
Develop middleware services that transform, route, validate, and orchestrate requests across multiple systems.
Work with technologies such as Kafka, Pub/Sub, JMS, API gateways, and service-to-service integrations .
Handle high-volume synchronous and asynchronous transaction flows.
Design appropriate error handling, retry, dead-letter, timeout, and recovery mechanisms.
Troubleshoot complex issues across multiple applications and integration layers.
GCP & Cloud-Native Engineering
Design and deploy services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) .
Hands-on experience with relevant GCP services such as: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Cloud Run
Pub/Sub
Cloud Storage
Cloud SQL
Secret Manager
IAM
Cloud Logging and Monitoring
Build containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes .
Implement secure workload identity, secrets management, and IAM-based access control.
Design applications considering high availability, scalability, disaster recovery, and observability .
DevOps, CI/CD & Observability
Work with CI/CD pipelines using technologies such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent .
Implement automated build, test, security scanning, and deployment pipelines.
Work with Infrastructure-as-Code solutions such as Terraform .
Establish monitoring…