Who Are We
ADB Safegate is the market leader in Airfield Solutions, with a presence in 2,700 airports and 40 offices worldwide. We are building ADB Safegate Labs in Hyderabad, India – our latest software development hub. This is an opportunity to join a truly global company, working on innovative software solutions that support airport operations across Airfield, Apron, Terminal, Tower, and Weather solutions.
Responsibilities
- Integrate airport products, field equipment, and third-party systems using APIs, brokers, events, and webhooks.
- Model equipment state, telemetry, alarms, health, control commands, and command results.
- Define source-of-truth, sequencing, timing, reconciliation, and ownership rules for operational data.
- Handle duplicate, late, missing, malformed, and out-of-order messages through resilient integration patterns.
- Implement secure authentication, certificates, schemas, versioning, contract tests, and interface observability.
- Support customer workshops, simulators, integration testing, site deployment, troubleshooting, and stabilisation.
Requirements
- 5+ years in API integration, backend development, or systems integration.
- Strong REST, XML, JSON, OpenAPI, schemas, OAuth2, JWT, and certificate-management knowledge.
- Experience with Java/Quarkus, Node.js, Python, or comparable backend technologies.
- Experience with SOAP, WebSphere, RabbitMQ, Kafka, MQTT, AMQP, webhooks, or asynchronous messaging.
- Knowledge of idempotency, retries, timeouts, ordering, replay, and eventual consistency.
- Industrial equipment, IoT, SCADA, aviation, or mission-critical integration experience is preferred.
Soft Skills
- Strong systems thinking and structured troubleshooting.
- Ability to clarify incomplete or conflicting interface requirements.
- Clear customer-facing and technical communication.
- Discipline in documenting assumptions, ownership, mappings, and failure behaviour.
- Early and transparent communication of risks and dependencies.
- Ownership from interface discovery through production stabilisation.
