Software Engineer I - Backend
Booking.comResponsibilities
- Develop scalable, flexible, and high-performance backend systems and services.
- Own the team’s microservices and services, including their performance and scaling.
- Troubleshoot system issues and prioritize work based on customer impact.
- Advocate for development best practices and make technical decisions within the team.
- Support compliance officers and analysts with enhanced tooling, analytics, and regulatory reporting.
- Communicate technical issues and solutions to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Contribute to interviewing, onboarding, and other recruitment efforts.
Requirements
- Minimum of 2 years of software development experience using two or more server-side programming languages.
- Java experience is required.
- Experience with microservices, highly scalable distributed systems, and batch-processing pipelines focused on data integrity.
- Experience with multiple data storage technologies, including MySQL, Hadoop, and Cassandra.
- Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing paradigms.
- Experience defining and upholding SLOs/KPIs and participating in architecture reviews.
- Experience addressing authentication and authorization security challenges.
- Experience working on products with a large customer base and company-wide impact.
- AWS experience, including DynamoDB, RDS, Step Functions, EC2, and Kinesis, is a plus.
- Experience with regulation or compliance policies and payments or FinTech is a plus.
- Experience working with geographically distributed teams is a plus.
Benefits
- Annual paid time off and generous paid leave, including parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave.
- Hybrid working with flexible arrangements and up to 20 days per year working from abroad in the home country.
- Industry-leading product discounts of up to 1400 per year, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit.
- The role does not include relocation assistance.
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About Booking.com
A career at Booking.com is all about the journey, helping you explore new challenges in a place where you can be your best self. With plenty of exciting twists, turns and opportunities along the way. We’ve always been pioneers, on a mission to shape the future of travel through cutting edge technology, to make it easier for everyone to enjoy amazing experiences wherever they go. Under a desert sky, or in the heart of a bustling city. Discovering the perfect hideaway, or the perfect paella. When you join us, you’ll be part of a community where taking a different path and trying something new is celebrated and supported. And where making a difference counts. We’re determined to make the world of travel more sustainable, more accessible, and more inclusive, to create a positive impact on a global scale. That’s why we’re always looking for people who search for better solutions, the ones eager to stray off the beaten path to find new ways of doing things. Because at Booking.com it’s more than a job, it’s a journey we’re on together.