Associate Director Engineering

RateGain Travel Technologies Limited is a global provider of AI-powered SaaS solutions for travel and hospitality, collaborating with 3,200+ customers and 700+ partners in 100+ countries to accelerate revenue generation through acquisition, retention, and wallet share expansion. RateGain is a leading processor of electronic transactions, price points, and travel intent data, working with various sectors such as hotels, airlines, meta-search companies, package providers, car rentals, travel management companies, cruises, and ferries to enhance business outcomes. **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead design, development, deployment, and troubleshooting of scalable web applications. - Ensure adherence to coding standards, design best practices, and quality processes. - Conduct code reviews and mentor engineers to maintain high technical standards. - Define and improve engineering processes, CI/CD workflows, and development best practices. - Drive technical design discussions and propose architecture improvements. - Oversee Kubernetes-based deployments for scalability and reliability. - Collaborate with product and DevOps teams to ensure smooth releases and system stability. - Continuously evaluate and recommend frameworks, tools, and design patterns. **Must-Have Skills:** - Strong experience in Java and Spring Boot. - Hands-on experience with Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure). AWS is preferred. - Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases. - Experience in Code quality assurance, process setup, and engineering best practices. - Proven track record in Team leadership, Mentoring, and Code reviews. - Solid understanding of asynchronous messaging systems (Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, etc.). - Practical experience with Kubernetes and containerized application. **Good-to-Have Skills:** - Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent). - Exposure to AWS Services (ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, etc.). - Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog). RateGain Travel Technologies Limited is a global provider of AI-powered SaaS solutions for travel and hospitality, collaborating with 3,200+ customers and 700+ partners in 100+ countries to accelerate revenue generation through acquisition, retention, and wallet share expansion. RateGain is a leading processor of electronic transactions, price points, and travel intent data, working with various sectors such as hotels, airlines, meta-search companies, package providers, car rentals, travel management companies, cruises, and ferries to enhance business outcomes. **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead design, development, deployment, and troubleshooting of scalable web applications. - Ensure adherence to coding standards, design best practices, and quality processes. - Conduct code reviews and mentor engineers to maintain high technical standards. - Define and improve engineering processes, CI/CD workflows, and development best practices. - Drive technical design discussions and propose architecture improvements. - Oversee Kubernetes-based deployments for scalability and reliability. - Collaborate with product and DevOps teams to ensure smooth releases and system stability. - Continuously evaluate and recommend frameworks, tools, and design patterns. **Must-Have Skills:** - Strong experience in Java and Spring Boot. - Hands-on experience with Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure). AWS is preferred. - Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases. - Experience in Code quality assurance, process setup, and engineering best practices. - Proven track record in Team leadership, Mentoring, and Code reviews. - Solid understanding of asynchronous messaging systems (Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, etc.). - Practical experience with Kubernetes and containerized application. **Good-to-Have Skills:** - Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent). - Exposure to AWS Services (ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, etc.). - Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog).