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.
Skills Required
- MS/MTech or BE/BTech degree in computer science or a related field
- 10+ years of professional Java development experience
- Experience engineering stable, fault-tolerant, high-performance, well-instrumented, compliant, always-on distributed systems
- Experience with design patterns, software engineering best practices, Agile SDLC, build and deployment tools, and CI/CD
- Strong understanding of non-functional requirements and software/application architecture
- Hands-on expertise with Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, RDBMS, NoSQL, and OOAD
- Experience with SOAP, REST, RESTful services, JSON-RPC, JMS, SOA/EDA, microservices, client-server, distributed systems, and enterprise integration
- Practical knowledge of cloud technologies and application containerization
- Experience with SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and cloud migration strategy
- Understanding of web and application servers such as Tomcat
- Experience with integration frameworks, rule engines, JVM monitoring, diagnostics, and tuning
- Proficiency in Test-Driven Development, networking, system monitoring, and problem diagnostics
- Knowledge of command-line tools and scripting, including Bash or Python
- Understanding of HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, presentation technologies, distributed caching, and data engineering
- Excellent communication, analytical, problem-solving, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Knowledge of GCP
- Knowledge of the payment domain
- Hands-on experience with AI technologies and MCP servers
- Experience in the travel domain and payment solutions
Sabre Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sabre Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Sabre Corporation.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is expansive, with five weeks of PTO from day one, eight paid holidays, floating holidays, and a companywide year‑end break. Paid volunteer time further broadens available leave.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave provides 12 weeks fully paid for birth or adoption, complemented by generous bereavement leave up to 15 paid days. Disability coverage and dependent eligibility to age 26 reinforce family support.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a strong company match underpins long‑term savings. This foundation strengthens overall financial security alongside core benefits.
Sabre Corporation Insights
What We Do
We are a software and technology company that powers the global travel industry. With decades of revolutionary firsts, our team of experts drive innovation and ingenuity in the industry. Today, we are creating a new marketplace for personalized travel. We partner with airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other travel partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel. We are committed to helping customers operate more efficiently, drive revenue and offer personalized traveler experiences with next-generation technology solutions. Positioned at the center of the business of travel, our platform connects people with experiences that matter in their lives. Sabre's technology powers the nearly US$8 trillion travel industry. Our technology and data-driven solutions help our airline, hotel, travel agency and corporate customers grow their businesses and transform the traveler experience. The scale, breadth and depth of our technology is unmatched and sustains a complex industry. We provide an open and stable platform to deliver flexible, reliable and scalable solutions. Over the years, we have shaped and modernized the travel industry. We pioneered online travel agencies, corporate booking tools, revenue management, and web and mobile itinerary tools, to name a few. Our travel marketplace transacts more than US$120 billion of travel spend per year. And we are the world’s largest provider of airline and hotel technology. We have been named to the InformationWeek 500 list of the most innovative technology companies for 11 consecutive years. And InformationWeek named Sabre seventh on its list of the “Greatest Software Ever Written.”
