4 days ago
Norwalk, CT, USA or New York, NY, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$175k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the long-term architecture vision, technical strategy, roadmap, and milestones for Search & Book platforms.
- Strengthen search resolution, typeahead, AI-powered discovery, booking-engine, and reservation management systems for speed, reliability, and scalability.
- Design scalable distributed systems and patterns for agentic commerce while balancing performance, resiliency, cost, and maintainability.
- Establish reusable standards for APIs, event-driven systems, data exchange, experimentation, observability, and service integration.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Data, Analytics, Customer Care, and platform teams on ownership and integration patterns.
- Lead legacy modernization efforts and reduce technical debt.
- Evaluate technologies and vendors through technical analysis, proofs of concept, and ROI assessments.
- Identify opportunities to apply AI and ML to search relevance and checkout experiences.
- Mentor senior and staff engineers and promote clear, simple engineering practices.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture.
- Experience designing systems involving search, recommendations, API-first and cloud-native architectures, microservices, and AI/ML including generative AI.
- Hands-on software engineering background with strong full-stack technical credibility.
- Strong preference for Java or Spring Boot and Python, plus fluency in API design, event-driven systems, CI/CD, testing, and observability practices.
- Proficiency in relational and non-relational data modeling, datastore selection, access patterns, consistency, resiliency, indexing, and partitioning strategies.
- Cloud-native experience, ideally with GCP services and Aiven technologies.
- Experience in environments requiring PCI DSS, SOX, SOC 2, and GDPR compliance, with strong auditability, traceability, and data governance practices.
- Experience with checkout, booking, travel, or ecommerce journeys is a plus.
- Ability to communicate clearly, influence executives and engineering teams, reduce ambiguity, and mentor senior and staff engineers.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with two days onsite and remaining days remote or in-office, as determined with the manager.
- Health and wellness coverage including medical, dental, vision, and mental health resources.
- Generous PTO, holidays, a company-wide Priceline Pause reset week, and paid volunteer days.
- Work/life support including up to four weeks per year working from anywhere, parental leave, dependent care and family support resources, Summer Fridays, stocked kitchens, and catered meals where available.
- Retirement plans with company contributions, life and disability coverage, and tax-advantaged accounts.
- Employee travel discounts on hotels and flights, VIP deals, and Big Deal Bucks credits.
- Additional travel and partner discounts, tuition support, legal support, and pet benefits.
- Employee Resource Groups, social events, recognition programs, and service awards.
Tech Stack
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About Priceline
Priceline operates an online travel booking platform where consumers reserve hotels, flights, rental cars, and vacation packages. Its business model combines merchant and agency arrangements, earning commissions and fees on travel reservations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, Priceline is a brand within Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG).