Booking Holdings Romania - Senior Software Engineer - Pipeline
Booking Holdings14 hours ago
Bucharest, RomaniaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and scale high-performance public APIs and resilient backend microservices.
- Build partner self-service onboarding, automate operational workflows, and integrate new travel verticals.
- Own services across the full software lifecycle, including architecture, coding, testing, deployments, monitoring, and continuous delivery.
- Operate distributed and event-driven systems while defining telemetry, SLIs, SLOs, and application health metrics.
- Triage and resolve production incidents, conduct root-cause analysis, and create postmortems and operational runbooks.
- Evaluate technologies and vendor integrations and guide technical direction while balancing cost, latency, and complexity.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, UX, and cross-functional engineering teams.
- Lead code reviews, mentor engineers, support onboarding and recruitment, and improve engineering standards.
Requirements
- Proven commercial software engineering experience building and maintaining high-throughput enterprise systems using at least two server-side languages such as Java, Python, NodeJS, or TypeScript.
- Deep expertise in Java and the Spring Boot ecosystem.
- Hands-on experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven architectures, microservices, and high-volume APIs.
- Working knowledge of Kafka, Kafka Streams, Redis, and relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL; DynamoDB and Cassandra experience is a plus.
- Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD tools such as GitLab and Harness.
- Experience applying TDD, DDD, SRE principles, secure coding standards, and modern observability frameworks.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code and GitHub Copilot.
- Strong critical-thinking, analytical, communication, stakeholder-management, and autonomous leadership skills.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Hybrid work with an onsite presence of two days per week.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
- Opportunities for technical, behavioral, and interpersonal development through on-the-job projects, hackathons, conferences, and community participation.
- Opportunity to work on a high-scale product with real-time impact on millions of travelers and access to large amounts of data for experimentation.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache CassandraApache KafkaAWSDockerGrafanaHarnessJavaKubernetesMySQLPostgreSQLPythonRedisSpring BootTerraformTypeScript
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About Booking Holdings
Booking Holdings is a public company (NASDAQ: BKNG) headquartered in Norwalk, CT that operates a portfolio of online travel and dining brands, including Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, and OpenTable. It connects travelers and diners with accommodations, transportation, activities, and restaurants, while providing distribution, advertising, and payments/fintech services to travel and hospitality partners. The platforms support bookings in more than 220 countries and territories.