Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.
As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.
Role description
The Full Stack Engineering Department builds the Agoda web and app products. We have several teams in front-end focusing on different aspects of our products including accommodations, flights, payments, marketing, post-booking services, and more. Agoda’s marketplace is the world. We build localized and optimized user experiences at scale on every major internet platform. These include our mobile websites, native apps, and desktop sites. We hire people from around the world who have a passion for using technology to create and implement the best user experiences. Our teams work on the full stack and build end-to-end systems including user interfaces, APIs, backend systems, and database systems. Our products are always evolving and under experimentation. We accomplish this by having an amazing degree of automation, CI/CD systems, and use a modularized approach. As we are data driven and measure our results, we continually innovate and improve our work. We are looking for the next great talent who strives to learn and grow and has a standard of excellence, strong sense of ownership, and great technical skills.
Lead engineer is the key role in our technology organization working together with individual contributors and senior leadership. Our Lead engineers are heavily involved in the hiring and mentoring process and are the go-to people who design and implement new systems and components. We are looking for people who are passionate to take on more responsibility and driving major architectural changes in Agoda. It’s expected from you in this role as Staff engineer to push Agoda forward technically by adopting new technologies and setting higher standards.
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties
Maintain ownership and responsibility of mission critical systems.
Be hands on – build high volume platforms using cutting-edge technologies like React and GraphQL
Mentor and coach other software engineers
Be a major contributor to our agile and scrum practices
Design and lead crucial technical projects and initiatives cross teams and departments
Stay on the leading edge of technical know-how, industry trends and drive technical innovations
Perform other tasks required by the direct manager.
Complies with health & safety regulations.
Role Qualifications and Requirements
12 years+ of experience developing web applications in client-side frameworks such as React, Angular, VueJS, etc., with a minimum of 3 year experiences as a Tech Lead
B.S. in Computer Science or quantitative field; M.S. preferred
Working experience with agile, analytics, A/B testing and/or feature flags, Continuous Delivery, Trunk-based Development
Excellent HTML/CSS skills – you understand not only how to build the data, but how to make it look great too
Excellent understanding of object-oriented JavaScript, TypeScript
You love new technologies and approaches and want to use the best tools available. We want people who can help us continually evolve our stack.
Great communication and coordination skills
Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
You have a good command of the English language
Nice-to-have:
Knowledge in physical architecture at scale, building resilient, no single point of failures, highly available solutions
Knowledge in one or more of the following: NoSQL technologies (Cassandra, ScyllaDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, DynamoDB, etc), Queueing system experience (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Azure Service Bus, etc)
Working Experience with Containers and Dockerization, also K8S is a plus
Knowledge and hands on experience in CI/CD solutions would be a plus
Strong experience in all aspects of client-side performance optimization
Extremely proficient in modern coding and design practices. For example, Clean Code, SOLID principals, and TDD
Experience in multiple front-end platforms including iOS, Android, Web, and API services
Have worked on an app or internet company that is at scale with large numbers of users and transactions per second
Have experience in a data driven company with experience analyzing and working with Big Data
Lead teams and greenfield projects solving large system problems
Worked on global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers and localization of the front end and data
Benefits & Perks
Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
Competitive compensation and benefits package
Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users
Booking Holdings 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.
Pre-Employment Screening
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