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 six-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, OpenTable and Rentalcars.com.
Role description
The new Scalability team will develop new features and expand the capabilities of existing systems. You will be responsible for the development, performance, and scaling of our public-facing API as well as internal systems.
This role provides a hybrid way of working with an on-site 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
- Bachelor’s Diploma in Computer Science or related field
- 3+ years software development experience; using 2 or more server side programming languages, preferably Java
- 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
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
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.
