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
Protect Millions. Power Trust. Build the Future of Secure Travel.
At Booking Holdings, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world. Behind that seamless experience is a powerful security infrastructure and we want you to help make it stronger.
Join our mission-critical team as a Software Engineer, where you'll design and build the systems that defend against evolving cyber threats. You’ll be at the heart of securing the world’s largest travel platform, creating high-performance scalable solutions that protect user accounts, prevent data breaches, and uphold customer trust across the globe.
We’re not just looking for coders; we’re looking for engineers who are passionate about security, care about clean, resilient architecture, and are ready to face real-world challenges with smart, innovative solutions.
What you’ll do:
- Build robust high-volume backend systems that detect, respond to, and prevent security threats, mainly using Java, Kafka, Cassandra, DynamoDB and other scalable technologies.
- Partner closely with security and platform teams to deliver tools that keep our users and data safe.
- Scale and harden our platform while maintaining performance and reliability.
- Leverage AWS to deploy and operate secure, cloud-native infrastructure.
Tech you’ll use:
- Languages: Mainly Java, with a touch of Python & Perl
- Data & Messaging: Kafka, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis, MySQL
- Cloud & Infra: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
- Monitoring: Grafana, OpenTelemetry
This role provides a hybrid way of working with an on-site presence of 2 days/week.
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties
- Writes software to support internal and customer-facing applications.
- Plays a key role in building distributed software applications to enrich our analysis and machine learning models for prevention, detection, and remediation mechanisms.
- Focuses on innovation to address complex technical issues associated with distributed systems.
- Own the solution end to end, from design and implementation to deployment and monitoring in production.
- Contributes to the development of our organization by communicating improvement ideas and proposals to partners across multiple other teams.
Role Qualifications and Requirements
Building software applications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
- 3+ years of experience as a software engineer using a server side programming languages, preferably Java
- Is able to build software applications by using relevant development languages and applying knowledge of systems, services and tools appropriate for the business area
- Is able to write readable and reusable code by applying standard patterns and using standard libraries
- Is able to maintain data security, integrity and quality by effectively following company standards and best practices
- Help grow the business and/or accelerate software development by applying engineering techniques (e.g. prototyping, spiking and vendor evaluation) and standards
Software Systems Design
- Evaluate possible architecture solutions by taking into account cost, business requirements, technology requirements and emerging technologies
- Describe the implications of changing an existing system or adding a new system to a specific area, by having a broad, high-level understanding of the infrastructure and architecture of our systems
- Meet business needs by designing solutions that meet current requirements and are adaptable for future enhancements
Critical Thinking
- Find solutions to difficult or complex issues by applying different skills and techniques like analytical thinking, lateral thinking, and logical reasoning
- Constructively improve existing ideas, plans and solutions by reviewing them in a critical yet constructive manner, initiating concrete improvements and articulating their rationale
- Continuous Quality and Process Improvement
- Identify opportunities for process, system, and/or structural improvements, by applying an understanding of process flows and the methods that can be used to boost effectiveness and efficiency
Effective Communication
- Deliver clear, well-structured, and meaningful information to a target audience by using suitable communication mediums and language tailored to the audience
- Achieve mutually agreeable solutions by staying adaptable, communicating ideas in clear coherent language and practicing active listening
Benefits & Perks
- Contributing to a high-scale, complex, world world-class 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.
