Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, enhance, and maintain high-performance C++ applications supporting large-scale transaction processing.
Work with complex legacy systems and contribute to legacy modernization initiatives, including migration of legacy code to modern C++.
Analyze existing applications, conduct technical research, and identify opportunities for improving performance, reliability, maintainability, and test coverage.
Develop and integrate software components for mission-critical airline reservation and travel systems.
Participate in requirements analysis, technical design, coding, unit testing, integration testing, deployment, and production support.
Troubleshoot complex production and system issues and provide root-cause analysis and long-term solutions.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, architects, product owners, QA engineers, and development teams throughout the SDLC.
Develop and maintain automated tests and validation processes to improve software quality and regression coverage.
Support modernization efforts by converting and validating legacy functionality while ensuring behavioral compatibility with existing systems.
Provide technical leadership and guidance to other developers and contribute to engineering best practices.
Manage and prioritize development work using Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools such as Jira and Git.
Participate in code reviews and ensure solutions meet performance, reliability, security, and maintainability standards.
Leverage AI-assisted development and automation tools to improve developer productivity, research, testing, and software delivery.

Required Qualifications

10+ years of professional software development experience, with extensive hands-on experience in C++.
Strong experience developing high-performance, transaction-oriented applications.
Experience working with large-scale airline, travel, reservation, or other mission-critical transaction systems.
Strong understanding of C++ programming, debugging, memory management, data structures, and performance optimization.
Experience working with legacy modernization and application migration/conversion projects.
Experience troubleshooting complex production issues and performing root-cause analysis.
Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
Experience with Git, Jira, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with technical and business stakeholders.
Ability to work independently while also providing technical leadership and mentoring to other developers.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Sabre, Travelport, airline reservation systems, or travel technology platforms.
Experience with z/TPF, TPFDF, TPF Toolkit, or mainframe environments.
Experience with Sabre Talk and BAL.
Experience modernizing legacy airline reservation systems from legacy languages to C++.
Experience with REST APIs, JSON/XML, OAuth, and API testing.
Experience with Python or C#.
Familiarity with automated testing tools such as Postman, REST Assured, TestNG, and Maven.
Experience using AI-assisted software development tools or agentic AI frameworks.