Booking.com
Software Engineer I - Backend

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About Us:
At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you encounter. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the memories you make. Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.
Role Description:
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.
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:
- 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
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Qualifications & Skills:
- Minimum of 2 years of software development experience; using 2 or more server-side programming languages. Experience with Java is a must
- Experience with micro-services is a must
- Experience with building highly scalable distributed systems and batch processing pipelines with a focus on data integrity
- Experience with multiple data storage technologies (MySQL, Hadoop, Cassandra)
- Experience with AWS (DynamoDB, RDS, Step functions, EC2, Kinesis) is a plus.
- Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing paradigms
- Experience with defining and upholding SLOs/KPIs and participating in architecture reviews for systems
- Experience with Regulation, compliance policies is a plus
- Past experience with payments or FinTech is a plus
- Experience with security challenges for authentication and authorization
- Experience of working on products that impact a large customer base and have a company-wide impact.
- Experience in working with teams, colleagues spread across geographical locations is a plus.
Benefits & Perks - Global Impact, Personal Relevance:
Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:


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- Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave
- Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)
- Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit
Application Process:
This role does not come with relocation assistance.
Booking.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.
Key Skills
- Java
- Python
- Perl
- AWS
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