Senior Software Engineer (2 years contract)

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 

• Autonomy and Leadership: Delivers business impact independently across a team and acts as a technical leader within and across multiple teams, driving cross-team initiatives.

• Technical Skills: Proficient in relevant programming languages, writing maintainable and readable code, and applying standard software design patterns and testing strategies.

• System Ownership: Oversees the entire service, monitoring application health, defining SLIs (Service Level Indicators) and SLOs (Service Level Objectives), and managing deployments.

• Incident Management: Resolves production issues promptly, conducts root cause analysis, and contributes to postmortem documentation.

• Architectural Guidance: Provides architectural insights, evaluates and designs solutions considering business needs and emerging technologies.

• Effective Communication and Mentorship: Communicates clearly with stakeholders, actively listens, and negotiates solutions while mentoring and coaching less experienced engineers.

• Continuous Improvement: Implements best practices for process and quality improvements, enhancing code quality and efficiency

• Recruiting: Contributing to the growth of Booking.com through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• 8+ years software development experience; 

• 5+ years of experience in using 2 or more server side programming languages, preferably Java and / or TypeScript

• 3+ years of experience in front-end development using React with TypeScript or JavaScript

• Extensive experience in building and maintaining resilient and scalable microservices

• Sound experience with Springboot and Kafka

• Experience in building and maintaining distributed systems

• Continuous Quality and Process Improvement ambassador 

• Advocate of modern engineering best practices (TDD, observability, cloud computing, DDD….)

• Extensive 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.

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.