Lead Software Engineering

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

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 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/GCP. In this role, you will lead engineering initiatives, mentor team members, drive architectural decisions, and deliver high‑quality, 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 problem‑solving 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 LLM‑integrated 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.