Booking Holdings Romania - Software Engineer (Java) - Identity & Access Management

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

We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our IAM team. As a member of the IAM team, you will be given the freedom to make meaningful and measurable improvements impacting the Authentication and Authorization of our employees and services. This is a unique chance to shape our security infrastructure for the foreseeable future as you will be responsible for improving reliability and scalability by designing, building and operating our own next-generation Access Management solution.

As a Software Engineer in our Identity & Access Management capability, you are responsible for the development, performance, and scaling of our security infrastructure, as well as internal systems related to the platform. 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 services for the Identity & Access Management capability area, including central solutions for Authentication, SSO & Authorization, which will impact the whole employee population.
• Acting as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Our products are developed in Java & Golang.
• Contributing to the growth of Booking.com through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor Degree
• Minimum of 3 years software development experience using Java and Spring Boot
• Previous experience with distributed systems especially Apache Kafka is a plus
• Experience with Kubernetes is a plus
• Experience with Elastic Stack (elasticsearch, kibana, logstash and beats)
• Knowledge of cloud computing fundamentals and experience with AWS and/or GCP
• Experience of working on products that impact a large customer base is an advantage

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.