Principal Backend Engineer (Java)

Almosafer (part of Seera Group) is Saudi Arabia's Leading Travel Company.

Elevating the journey for travelers from 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. Almosafer creates opportunities for outbound, leisure, and religious travel, whilst serving B2C and B2B customers, partners, and suppliers with state-of-the-art travel solutions, a digital-first mindset, and travel advisory.

About the role:

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

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Manage the risks, issues, and dependencies of the scoped solution.
• Responsible for roadmaps for integration technologies (current and future).
• Introduce Agile processes to the existing team.
• You will mentor Junior Backend Engineers and guide them from design to deployment.

Profile Requirements:

• 7+ years of intensive Java backend development and solution architecture (Java, Spring Boot, API Security, Redis, SQL and NoSQL databases, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS).
• 4+ years of experience on Java and should be working on Java 8 or Java 11.
• Strong experience in hands-on platform delivery and architecture design.
• Full understanding of Cloud services, AWS, and DevOps tools and CI/CD processes.
• 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.
• Must have working experience on MongoDB and MySQL.
• Thought leadership and technical knowledge combined with delivery experience in some of these areas:
• Legacy platform migration.
• RESTful APIs and API gateways.
• Microservices based Architecture.
• Cloud deployment (AWS mainly).
• Ability to influence and guide senior stakeholders on technical solutions.
• Excellent documentation, presentation, and communication skills.

At Almosafer, we strongly believe in diversity and equal opportunities for all candidates. We do not discriminate based on any characteristic and follow fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. Join our inclusive work environment.