Senior Microservices Engineer II

About Marriott:

Marriott Tech Accelerator is part of Marriott International, a global leader in hospitality. Marriott International, Inc. is a leading American multinational company that operates a vast array of lodging brands, including hotels and residential properties. It consists of over 30 well-known brands and nearly 8,900 properties situated in 141 countries and territories.

Role Title: Senior Microservices Engineer II

Position Summary:

We are seeking an exceptional engineering talent to join our team and lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, event-driven cloud-native applications. The ideal candidate is passionate about solving complex problems, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is eager to work with modern technologies and architectural patterns.

This role requires a collaborative engineer who can communicate effectively across teams and organizational levels, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical excellence. As a key contributor, you will design and deliver robust microservices using Java and Spring Boot, integrate with event streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka, and leverage container orchestration and cloud-native tools to build resilient, scalable solutions.

You will have the opportunity to work with a broad set of technologiesincluding Java, Spring Boot, reactive programming, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and both SQL and NoSQL databaseswhile contributing to the evolution of our microservices and event-driven architecture.

Job Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership

• Trains and / or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate
• Provides financial input on department or project budgets, capital expenditures or other cost/resource estimates as requested
• Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery processes.

Delivering Technology:

• Performs more complex quantitative and qualitative analyses for service delivery processes and projects.
• Facilitates achievement of expected deliverables and obligations of Services Providers
• Validates completeness of requirements prior to Service Provider solutioning
• Ensures all projects follow the defined development and business case processes
• Ensures proper coordination with appropriate IT and vendor relations teams
• Provides consultation for routine and complex systems development
• Ensures early warning to the business stakeholder executives regarding degraded or missed service levels
• Coordinates with Operations and Infrastructure teams for deployment and production support activities

IT Governance:

• Follows all defined IR standards and processes (i.e. IT Governance, SM&G, Architecture, etc.), and provides input for improvements to the appropriate process owners as needed
• Maintains a proper balance between business and operational risk
• Follows the defined project management standards and processes

Service Provider Management:

• Validates that Service Providers develop and manage respective aspects of a project plan, including schedules, deliverables, and appropriate metrics.
• Makes short term plans for the team to effectively utilize resources
• Monitors Service Provider outcomes
• Reviews estimates of work effort for client project provided by Service Providers for accuracy
• Facilitates timely resolution of service delivery problems and minimizes the impact to clients

Skill and Experience:

• 6-8+ years of hands-on experience developing enterprise applications with Java, Play framework and Akka.
• Strong expertise in designing and building microservices and RESTful APIs, with a deep understanding of microservices architecture and integration patterns.
• Experience in Reactive Programming (Spring WebFlux, Actor frameworks)
• Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Couchbase, DB2).
• Solid hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration of cloud-native applications.
• Familiarity with DevOps tools such as GitHub, Harness, and Vault for source control, CI/CD, and secrets management.
• Strong understanding of API security protocols (OAuth, JWT, etc.) and best practices for securing distributed systems.
• Experience deploying and operating applications on AWS or similar cloud platforms.
• Exposure to logging and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace and Grails
• Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a passion for delivering high-quality, reliable software.
• Effective communicator with the ability to collaborate across teams and articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Education and Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience

Work location: Hyderabad, India.

Work mode: Hybrid

Marriotts core values:

At Marriott, ourcore values make us who we are. We believe that success is never final. As we change and grow, the beliefs that are most important to us stay the sameputting people first, pursuing excellence, embracing change, acting with integrity, and serving our world. Being part of Marriott Tech Accelerator means being part of a proud history and a thriving culture.