Backend Software Engineer

• As a Software Engineer, you are responsible for the development, performance, and scaling of our services as well as internal systems. You will work independently and will also be responsible for making technical decisions within a team
• Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems
• Self-starters with a collaborative, “can-do” attitude
• Solving issues with the systems, prioritizing based on customer impact
• Advocating development best practices within the team
• Be owner for teams’ micro-services and services
• Acting as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Understanding the regulatory processes and how to best support our customers, partners and compliance officers. Providing compliance officers/analysts with enhanced tooling experience, analytics and reporting
• Contributing to the growth of Booking.com through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Free access to Headspace for you and your loved ones
• Global Employee Assistance Program
• Meditation and Breastfeeding rooms at the office
• Booking Cares - 2 days per year to volunteer and learn
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Pension plan
• Annual paid time off
• Parental leave - 22 weeks
• Grandparent leave - 10 days
• Care leave - 10 days
• Bereavement leave - up to 4 weeks
• Anniversary leave
• Working from Home Furniture and Ergonomic Support
• Working from Abroad - up to 20 days per year
• Discounts & Wallet credits to spend on our products
• Upgrade to Booking.com Genius Level 3
• Friends & Family Booking.com discount vouchers
• Free access to online learning platforms
• Development and mentorship programs to support career growth
• Access to trainings and workshops
• Team development opportunities
• Local discount programs
• Game rooms in offices
• On-site meals, coffee and snacks including vegan options- Experience in working with teams, colleagues spread across geographical locations is a plus
• Experience of working on products that impact a large customer base and have a company-wide impact
• Experience with Regulation, compliance policies is a plus
• Past experience with payments or FinTech is a plus
• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing paradigms
• Experience with multiple data storage technologies (MySQL, Hadoop, Cassandra)
• Experience with security challenges for authentication and authorization
• Experience with defining and upholding SLOs/KPIs and participating in architecture reviews for systems
• Experience with micro-services is a must
• Experience with AWS (DynamoDB, RDS, Step functions, EC2, Kinesis) is a plus
• Experience with building highly scalable distributed systems and batch processing pipelines with a focus on data integrity
• Minimum of 2 years of software development experience; using 2 or more server-side programming languages. Experience with Java is a must