Booking Holdings Romania - Senior Software Engineer

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

A Senior Software Engineer owns the end-to-end execution of technical elements in the Booking.com tech stack, products and processes. They are responsible for the implementation of complex technical solutions based on business requirements, they can accurately estimate or forecast the effort and impact of the items they work on, and show a high quality of craft in what they deliver. Senior Software Engineers are expected to work together with colleagues in other job roles to design, prioritise and implement complex technical tasks. Senior Software Engineers I are expected to coach and mentor more junior engineers and be a thought leader in their team ensuring best practices are being implemented. Because the required technical skills and commercial knowledge can vary from one business unit to another, a Senior Software Engineer can own multiple types of work from product features to infrastructure automation, frameworks, tooling or services.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Is responsible to build software applications by using relevant development languages and applying knowledge of systems, services and tools appropriate for the business area and guide more junior members of the team in this topic
• Is responsible to own a service end to end by actively monitoring application health and performance, setting and monitoring relevant metrics and act accordingly when violated
• Is responsible to address and resolve live production issues by mitigating the customer impact within SLA and too improve the overall reliability of systems by producing long term solutions through root cause analysis
• Is responsible to evaluate possible architecture solutions by taking into account cost, business requirements, technology requirements and emerging technologies
• Is responsible to identify opportunities for process, system and structural improvements (i.e performance gains) by examining and evaluating current process flows, methods and standards
• Is responsible to deliver clear, well-structured, and meaningful information to a target audience by using suitable communication mediums and language tailored to the audience

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor Degree
• 5 - 8 years of relevant experience
• Proficient at building software applications
• Proficient in End to End System Ownership
• Experience in Software Systems Design
• Experience in Architectural Guidance
• Proficient in Technical Incident Management
• Proficient in Technical Leadership
• Proficient in effective Communication
• Proficient in continuous quality improvement
• Proficient in critical thinking
• Familiar with Technical Coaching/Mentoring

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.