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