Specialist - Backend Engineer

About the company:

Almosafer (part of Seera Group) 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 job:

We are looking for a strong Senior Backend Engineer. If you are well versed in Microservices, 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.
• 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

Profile requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
• 4+ years of intensive Java backend development and solution architecture. (Java, Spring Boot, API Security, Redis, Sql and NoSql databases, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS)
• Should be working on Java 8 or Java 11
• Must have working experience on MongoDB
• 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: ○ 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

Being you @ Almosafer:

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.