Principal Software Engineer

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.

Sabre is seeking a talented Principal Software Engineer to support the Payment Solutions Team.

At Sabre, we’re passionate about building software that solves problems. In this role you will plan, design, develop and test software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products including cloud-based or internet-related tools.

This role requires a highly technical, hands-on individual capable of delving into details while executing solutions that meet strategic and tactical objectives.

Role and Responsibilities:

- Developing comprehensive software designs and solutions, complete with system architecture diagrams, design documents, and walkthroughs for various stakeholders.

- Providing engineering guidance and support to both local and global development teams.

- Crafting high-level engineering specifications with a focus on integration and feasibility.

- Designing and implementing new components and subsystems, as well as reviewing and redesigning existing architectures as necessary.

- Creating an engineering roadmap that aligns with business, client, and stakeholder strategies and requirements.

- Collaborating with business partners to translate functional requirements into technical specifications.

- Interfacing with customers to understand system and engineering needs.

- Working with peer organizations and engineers globally to produce cutting-edge software business solutions.

- Eliciting functional and non-functional requirements from subject matter experts.

- Collaborating with Product, solutions and systems teams across multiple locations.

- Understanding customer needs and translating them into technical solutions.

- Mentoring developers through code reviews, design principles, and design pattern implementations.

- Providing technical guidance and coaching to developers and engineers.

- Assisting in the development of technical documentation.

- Mentoring technical leads and developers to enhance their competencies.

- Introducing best practices, enterprise standards, microservices architecture, and API implementation methodologies to the technology stack.

- Defining development aspects, from technology choices and workflows to coding standards.

- Establishing consistent product and system patterns to ensure high-quality results and promote cross-team collaboration.

- Ensuring high-quality, realistic, and detailed architectures with consistent technical artifacts.

- Staying current with new technologies and tools, performing Proof of Concepts (PoCs), and defining adoption plans.

- Applying industry best engineering practices.

- Advising on development processes and practices.

- Diagnosing system failures and production issues, working with technical staff to identify and address root causes.

- Applying broad knowledge of technical solutions to solve challenging assignments.

- Leading teams to deliver against product development plans by leveraging a strong understanding of system and software engineering.

- Driving alignment of architectures and designs with product specifications.

- Exercising discretion and independent judgment in line with organizational direction.

- Communicating concepts and guidelines effectively to the development team.

- Overseeing development team progress to ensure design consistency.

- Ensuring software meets all quality, security, extensibility, and data privacy requirements.

- Driving and owning non-functional mandates, compliance, and security requirements.

Job Requirements:

- MS/MTech, BE/BTech in computer science or related fields.

- Excellent programming skills with 10+ 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 and design.

- Experience with SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and cloud migration strategy.

- 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.

- Solid understanding of Data Engineering and related technologies.

- Excellent communication skills for seamless collaboration with stakeholders, extended teams, and customers.

- Capable of clearly articulating technical concepts and analysis implications to a diverse audience.

- Highly motivated team player with a deep understanding of business needs.

- Strong intermediary between business and technical staff.

- Committed to continuous development and learning.

- Knowledge of the payment domain is a plus.

- Hands-on experience with AI technologies and MCP servers.

- Experience in the travel domain and payment solutions will be a strong advantage.

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.