Lead Software Engineering

Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader backed by one of the worlds 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 Description: Lead Software Engineer (Spring Boot Microservices AWS/GCP REST API Web services)

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer to design and build scalable cloud-native platforms using Java Spring Boot Microservices and AWS/ this role you will lead engineering initiatives mentor team members drive architectural decisions and deliver highquality resilient services. Exposure to agentic AI frameworks will be a plus.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end development of scalable Spring Boot microservices.
• Architect modernize and refactor monolithic applications into modular or microservices-based components.
• Design implement and optimize REST APIs and SOAP/Web Services.
• Deploy cloud-native applications on AWS or GCP.
• Build persistence layers using Hibernate/JPA integrating with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Implement messaging and event-driven integrations using Pub/Sub Kafka or similar platforms.
• Ensure application reliability observability and performance across distributed systems.
• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews best practices and mentoring.
• Collaborate closely with product architects DevOps and cross-functional teams.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Contribute to PoCs or feature development involving agentic AI automated reasoning or AI-assisted workflows (Nice to have)

Required Skills & Experience

• 8 years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Strong expertise with:
  • Java (11/17)
  • Spring Boot Spring Cloud JPA/Hibernate
  • Microservices architecture & distributed system patterns
  • REST API design & implementation
• Proven experience deploying applications on AWS and/or GCP.
• Solid foundation in Docker Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Experience with CI/CD (Jenkins GitHub Actions etc.).
• Strong understanding of system performance security and design patterns.
• Excellent analytical debugging and problemsolving skills.
• Experience with event-driven systems (Kafka pub/sub).
• Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana Prometheus ELK Splunk).
• Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform CloudFormation).
• Strong leadership communication and collaboration abilities.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to agentic AI frameworks autonomous agents RAG workflows or LLMintegrated systems.

Soft Skills

• Ability to lead and mentor engineering teams.
• Strong ownership mindset and proactive problem-solving.
• Comfortable driving clarity in ambiguous situations.
• Passion for innovation and continuous learning.

We will give careful consideration to your application and review your details against the position criteria. You will receive separate notification as your application progresses.

Please note that only candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role will proceed in the selection process.