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 ‘Alway…