Principal Backend Engineer

Posted 7 Days Ago
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Riyadh, SAU
In-Office
Senior level
Travel
Saudi Arabia’s Leading Travel Company
The Role
Lead design and delivery of scalable backend solutions and integration architectures using microservices, event-driven patterns, and cloud (AWS). Guide implementation from requirements to go-live, drive architecture strategy, DevOps/CI-CD, legacy migrations, and introduce Agile practices.
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Company Description

We are one of the largest travel and transportation companies in the region and currently are in the middle of a massive digital transformation within the organization.

Job Description

We are looking for a strong Principal Software Engineer. If you are well versed in Microservices, Solution Architecture, including network, data, application, system, and integration architecture - then we are looking for you!

Responsibiities:

  • Design Technical/Integration Architectures, including development, runtime, and operations architectures
  • Define scalable solutions using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) patterns, and microservices automating business process models and cloud-based services.
  • Design message and event-driven architectures.
  • Lead implementation of large, complex solutions from establishing project requirements and goals to solution "go-live"
  • Provide Technical design across multiple projects and clients
  • Provide Technology Consulting services covering areas such as Architectural Strategy, Architectural review/audit and Architecture road-map.
  • Manages the risks, issues, and dependencies of the scoped solution
  • Responsible for roadmaps for integration technologies (current and future).
  • Introducing Agile processes to the existing team

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of intensive Java backend development and solution architecture. (Java, Spring Boot, API Security, Redis, Sql and NoSql databases, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS).
  • Strong experience in hands-on platform delivery and architecture design.
  • Full understanding of Cloud service, AWS and DevOps tools and CI/CD process.
  • Strong experience with the full life cycle of Agile software development processes, approaches, delivery and methods with scaling to the Enterprise and release management processes.
  • Thought leadership and Technical knowledge combined with delivery experience in some of these areas:
  1. Legacy platform migration
  2. RESTful APIs and API gateways
  3. Microservices based Architecture
  4. Cloud deployment (AWS mainly)
  • Ability to influence and guide senior stakeholders on technical solutions
  • Excellent documentation, presentation and communication skills.
  • Should have good experience with NodeJs

Skills Required

  • 5+ years intensive Java backend development and solution architecture (Java, Spring Boot, API Security, Redis, SQL and NoSQL databases, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS)
  • Hands-on platform delivery and architecture design
  • Full understanding of cloud services, AWS and DevOps tools and CI/CD processes
  • Strong experience with full lifecycle Agile software development, enterprise scaling, and release management
  • Experience with legacy platform migration
  • Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and API gateways
  • Experience with microservices-based architecture and message/event-driven architectures
  • Experience with cloud deployment (AWS)
  • Ability to influence and guide senior stakeholders on technical solutions
  • Excellent documentation, presentation and communication skills
  • Experience with NodeJs
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The Company
HQ: Riyadh
1,973 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Almosafer (part of Seera Group) Saudi Arabia’s Leading Travel Company Elevating the journey for travellers from, to & within Saudi Arabia, the region & beyond, while harnessing Seera Group’s 40+ years of expertise, Almosafer supports Saudi Arabia’s vision as a national champion for tourism. Through its portfolio of businesses, Almosafer caters to every vertical across the travel & tourism ecosystem. A holistic travel platform built on the foundation of data, technology, and scalability, we serve all travel sectors from consumer to corporate & government, while enabling inbound tourism for leisure and religious travel. #Almosafer (Consumer travel) #AlmosaferBusiness (Corporate & government @Almosafer Activities (KSA activities marketplace) @DiscoverSaudiDMC (KSA destination management) @Mawasim (Hajj & Umrah)

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