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.
The Acceleration team will develop new features and expand the self-serving capabilities of existing systems to handle partner accounts at scale, with initial focus on automating backend operational tasks and improving onboarding and partner setup.
This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties
Responsible for the development and performance of our systems and services
Work independently as part of an autonomous team and be responsible for making technical decisions within a team
Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems and services
Solving issues within our systems and services, prioritizing based on customer impact
Acting as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences
Contributing to the growth of Booking.com through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts
Role Qualifications and Requirements
3+ years software development experience; using 2 or more server side programming languages, preferably Java and TypeScript
Experience in building and maintaining resilient and scalable microservices
Experience with Springboot and Kafka (nice to have)
Previous experience with distributed systems
Continuous Quality and Process Improvement
Modern engineering best practices (TDD, observability, cloud computing, DDD….)
Demonstrable experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL or similar relational databases
Experience of working on products that impact a large customer base is an advantage
Preferably a university degree in Mathematics or Software Engineering
Excellent communication; written and spoken
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
Pre-Employment Screening
If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.
