Business Risk & Control Officer - Central jobs at Booking in Netherlands, Amsterdam

Key Responsibilities

• Business Acumen:
• Maintain a fundamental understanding of the Booking.com business, industry news and risk best practices and apply that knowledge in the context of your core areas of responsibility.
• Critical Thinking:
• Identify and design solutions in a wide range of situations, and proactively propose concrete improvement plans.
• Objective Setting, Prioritization & Task Management:
• Independently structure and execute work, decide on priority areas and output fitting the overarching objectives and priorities. Deliver in line within agreed timelines and escalate issues to the appropriate level and roles within the organization where needed.
• Attention to Detail:
• Produce high quality, accurate output across a broad range of topics, with limited review and oversight required.
• Result Orientation:
• Work independently and proactively to deliver the right results for specific objectives and deliverables in line with personal and company values whilst influencing stakeholders in order to meet timelines and prioritize critical activities.
• Effective Communication & Presentation Skills:
• Effectively and clearly communicate and present information relating to core responsibilities, tailor messages and explain (technical) concepts to stakeholders.
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions.
• Organize and run larger meetings in a clear, structured and outcome-oriented manner.
• Stakeholder Management & Influencing:
• Independently identify, develop and grow relationships with key stakeholders to build and maintain a wide network within the coverage area, mostly at mid-level but also including key senior stakeholders for a bilateral flow of information.
• Align with stakeholders on impact beyond their team, respectfully challenging and influencing others to assume appropriate roles and responsibilities by adopting stakeholder management and influencing techniques.
• Confidently and independently navigate tricky discussions, incorporating Manager input around escalations, approach or blockers where needed.
• People Management:
• Provide constructive feedback to peers and incorporate received feedback into personal development goals.
• May provide mentoring and task oversight to more junior staff or external consultants.
• Support hiring process.
• Operational & Technical Expertise:
• Apply a comprehensive understanding to processes, systems and/or products within your coverage area.
• Display general understanding of the impact on the wider process and/or system landscape.
• Seek manager input for in-depth expertise.
• Risk Landscape Awareness:
• Maintain awareness or knowledge of the broader internal risk landscape across one or more business areas as well as external developments.
• Adopt a business need centric and user friendly approach to influence business stakeholders to take informed decisions in line with the risk capacity, risk appetite and risk tolerance of Booking.com.
• Risk & Governance Advisory:
• Provide input to the development of methodologies throughout the risk management lifecycle.
• Advice stakeholders in ongoing risk and compliance work within your dedicated area(s).
• Risk Identification & Assessment:
• Identify and appropriately assess risks in line with the team's frameworks and methodologies.
• Document risk assessment outcomes, including clear description of the risk, perceived level of risk and considerations for risk treatment, tailored to the topic at hand, with limited guidance and review required.
• Risk Treatment:
• Independently support control design and/or assurance activities and work with control owners to prepare controls for approval.
• Coordinate audit activities including support to close any control deficiencies identified.
• Work across teams/projects/BUs and ensure risks are appropriately mitigated.
• Develop, select and implement risk treatment strategies, proposing alternative risk treatment options where needed.

Communication.Stakeholder

• Process/Control owners (combination of directors, managers, team leaders and individual contributors)
• Subject Matters Experts (SME's) e.g. Finance, Fintech, Fraud, Legal, Security, etc.
• Other Internal stakeholders in Accommodations (i.a. CS, PS, Product), Trips, Finance, FinTech, Legal, Marketing, People, Strategy and Corporate Development and Technology (i.a. Security, Infrastructure)
• Internal & External Audit
• Risk & Control team

Communication.Type

• Persuasion / CooperationPartner with business stakeholders by: providing guidance and support in ongoing compliance;providing guidance and support in identifying risks and control gaps and, designing and implementing appropriate controls;providing clear instructions on expected stakeholder contributions and ensure follow up;facilitating and participating in cross functional groups for activities related to the risk management lifecycle;presenting and advising on standardized methodologies, processes and documentation;maintaining a business centric approach.
• Information and CooperationInform SMEs on:risk areas in need of SME input;control design and implementation;work closely together to share knowledge and experience.
• CooperationWork closely together to share knowledge and experience.
• Cooperation Support Internal and External audit teams to ensure that remediation plans are implemented on a timely basis for any deficiencies foundSupport SOX, PCI and other audit cycles
• Information and CooperationWork closely together to share knowledge and experience.

Communication.Frequency

• Continuous
• Continuous
• Continuous
• Continuous
• Continuous

Level of Education.Level of Education

• Bachelor degree
• Master degree

Level of Education.Description

• Alternatively compensating years of experience (3 to 5 years in addition to below)
• Preferred

Years of relevant Job Knowledge.Years of relevant Job Knowledge

• Advanced Knowledge (5 - 8 years)

Requirements of special knowledge/skills

• Qualities / Soft Skills:
• Enthusiastic, self-starting and flexible work attitude
• Ability to effectively prioritize and manage workload, work under pressure and deliver on timelines
• Handle multiple tasks, of varying and often complex content, generally at the same/similar time
• Have the ability to split large tasks into logical, manageable and decoupled actions which are managed effectively and delivered on time
• Strongly process, problem solving and action oriented
• Curious and proactive in the assessment and challenge of risks
• Strong team player
• Advanced communication skills and ability to actively listen
• Strong relationship building skills
• High level of integrity, confidentiality & professionalism
• Requirements of special knowledge/ Hard Skills:
• Advanced (technical) understanding of and experience with Risk Management, Compliance, Internal controls , control procedures, automation, monitoring, testing, collecting evidence and remediation activities
• Experience with large e-commerce or tech companies is advantageous
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken
• CISSP, CRISC, CISM, CISA, or similar certification is advantageous
• Project management skills
• Stakeholder management skills
• For Business Officer functions:
• Advanced understanding of and experience with risk management relevant fields, for example but not limited to:
• Business analysis
• Auditing
• Corporate governance
• Finance concepts and processes
• SOx integration
• AML/ CFT framework, GDPR, PCI, SOx
• Fundamental understanding of below IT expertise fields.
• For IT Officer functions:
• Advanced understanding of and experience with risk management relevant fields, for example but not limited to:
• IT Risk management and IT Governance
• IT Security concepts and processes
• (IT) Frameworks like ITGC, COSO, NIST
• DevOps tools like Puppet, Jenkins, Git, Docker, or Kubernetes
• JIRA
• Fundamental understanding of above Business expertise fields.

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.

• Assist in the development and leading of regular security training/awareness programs to train and educate risk owners and the broader organization on internal controls and security topics.
• Co-Lead/ support the processes of maturity assessments (cyber, fraud, T&S) and recommendations follow up
• Coordinate the follow up of audit and internal assessment security issues; Monitor and report the status of remediation plans; assess remediation progress and challenge management on the selected approach and prioritization.
• Co-Lead/ support the process of SS&F risk register update including the maintenance of the SS&F risk definition
• Support the IT policy lifecycle management including the design, implementation and adoption of policies, standards and guidelines in the areas of SS&F.
• Manage security exceptions to IT policies and standards.
• Stay flexible to meet the dynamic business needs, while maintaining robust solutions that strengthen the control environment.

• Bachelor’s degree required in technology, computer science or a related field
• CISA, CISSP, CISM, CEH, CIPP/E or related certification.
• 5-7 years work experience in business analysis, information security processes, auditing, corporate governance, risk management, internal controls, security awareness programs.
• Ability to develop solid relationships with business partners in order to drive the adoption of the risk management culture.
• Strong program management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Thorough technical understanding of SS&F internal control requirements and design and experience in applying them in various businesses.
• Able to split large tasks into logical, manageable and decoupled actions which are managed effectively and delivered on time.
• Be flexible and agile in response to the change in business, change in stakeholder expectations and/or change in regulatory/operating environment of .
• Good understanding of IT Control and cybersecurity Frameworks, such as COBIT; ISO 27001 and NIST CSF / SP 800-53.
• Strong independent contributor, while still a strong team player

Total Reward Philosophy:

• The benefits and perks offered by the company can be .

Career Development Opportunities:

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• and benefit from a mentoring relationship with a more experienced person to help you identify and achieve your professional and personal development goals.

• personalized one-to-one coaching with our internal coaches.

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.

As a Senior Business Operations Associate - Portfolio you will help to implement (lean) portfolio management processes, structure and tools to ensure goal achievement and to help the FinTech department to run more smoothly. As part of the FinTech BusOps Portfolio Management team, you will foster collaboration across the whole organization. You will partner with different teams to ensure the right tracking of the key initiative deliverables and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) within the departments. Also you will support the adoption of company wide processes within FinTech (e.g. Quarterly Planning, Quarterly Business Reviews, Annual Planning). You will provide standardized quality-assured information that enables data-driven decisions to be taken regarding the portfolio of initiatives.

You must be able to thrive and succeed in a highly dynamic entrepreneurial environment. This means working with high-level programs and initiatives, but to also roll up your sleeves, dig in and help lead change on a day-to-day basis. This role may also get involved in end-to-end activities of a project or change management initiatives. The position requires a hands-on professional with a high level of energy and flexibility to get things done and thrive in a fast-paced product development environment.

Your responsibilities:

Portfolio Planning and Demand Management

• Support the annual- and quarterly planning cycles of the department in line with the defined planning process - as well as suggest and support the implementation of improvements

• Support the utilization of Jira, Confluence and other related plugins for the planning and tracking the portfolio of initiatives

• Support the preparation as well as follow up from the Portfolio Sync meeting where new demand is discussed and tradeoff decisions are made

• Support in maintaining a consolidated and up-to-date initiative portfolio and roadmap for the department in Jira and other related plugins

• Support the adoption and utilization of the defined Governance model and its respective artifacts

Portfolio Performance Reporting

• Provide insights (dashboards/reports) around the portfolio, focused on optimizing the flow of value within the portfolio of the department

• Research and build insights for the information needs of various stakeholders - e.g. portfolio status reports

• Independently use quantitative and qualitative data to support portfolio decision-making as well as tell a clear story with the data/insights

Stakeholder Management

• Acts as a central point of contact, streamlining processes, fostering teamwork, and driving operational efficiency.

• Ability to influence up to Senior Management level and productively interact with Director level

• Support all relevant stakeholders with extracting the most value out of the portfolio processes, tools and ways of working

• Build and maintain connections with diverse teams across the organization

(Lean) Portfolio Management Capability Development

• Support the introduction of changes, new portfolio processes as well as continuous improvements of the (lean) portfolio management capability

• Positively and proactively contributes towards the overall Business Operations craft, including being available to coach others, share best practices or participate in events or projects

Requirements and experience:

• Experienced professional with 5+ years in similar positions (within a Consulting, Chief of Staff/Executive Assistant, Agile/Hybrid Project Management roles) preferably within fast-paced technology organizations

• Strong verbal and written communication with crisp and business-oriented language; ability to tailor the language to a variety of audiences

• Service excellence and customer driven mindset

• Excellent problem solving, interpersonal skills

• Effective presentations delivery

• Strong knowledge in Jira and Confluence, as well as related plugins - e.g. OBoard, Structure

• Fluent in persuasion and always strive to achieve and surpass set objectives

• Practice of working with different stakeholders such as product, tech, operations and others simultaneously and being able to pivot to their needs

• Experience in an online/ecommerce, payments processing, and/or financial systems is preferred

• Experience in working in (lean) portfolio management is a plus - e.g. supporting demands through their selection, prioritization and planning; portfolio roadmapping; creation of portfolio dashboards and reporting based on portfolio metrics; ability to interpret portfolio performance data

• Lean Portfolio Management certifications is a plus

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.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

Strategic Business Partnership

• Collaborate directly with the SVP to align and prioritise activities with overarching business objectives

• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to advance business initiatives

• Act as a trusted advisor to the department Leadership Team Member (SVP), providing insights on individual and team dynamics

• Ensure clear alignment on business priorities, interdependencies, and needs between the SVP and the broader business

• In partnership with Business Operations, HR Business Partners, FP&A, Internal Communications, and other relevant stakeholders, establish and refine the department's operational cadence (i.e. annual planning, people cycles) to ensure accountability, ownership, and timely delivery of priorities

• Facilitate seamless communication between Global Communications and the department to identify and leverage short-term and long-term communication opportunities, ensuring this collaborative approach is embedded throughout the department

Executive Support & Operations

• Take full ownership of the SVP's calendar and inbox, proactively managing communications and preparing/sending emails on their behalf to both internal and external stakeholders

• Coordinate and actively facilitate SVP’s LT Meetings, including note-taking and follow-ups. Possess the ability to challenge and influence top management as needed

• Provide end-to-end planning and support for meetings and events, including but not limited to offsites, all-hands, Q&As, and working sessions

• Assume full responsibility for all delegated tasks on behalf of the SVP (i.e. Workday, Concur)

• Manage all aspects of leader onboarding and offboarding processes

• Oversee the comprehensive planning of business trips and travel needs for the SVP, including logistics, visas, itinerary coordination with multiple stakeholders, and the compilation/development of preparation materials for meetings and presentations

• Ensure that Leadership adhere to company policies and effectively manage the allocated budget

• Facilitate a process for obtaining signatures for the SVP

Team Leadership & Craft Development

• Team Management: Fully accountable for managing, coaching, and developing the team of A/EBPs. This includes executing and delivering on business performance management cycles, ensuring alignment with peers for fair processes, and adhering to compensation management guidelines

• Hiring & Staffing: Fully accountable for hiring and staffing, continuously advocating for the craft of A/EBPs

• Craft Community Strategy: Provide input to the strategy, roadmap, priorities, and objectives for the A/EBP craft within the relevant department

• Continuous Craft Development: Actively drive and support the continuous development of the E/EBP craft to ensure it remains fit for purpose. Identify gaps, and collaborate with other stakeholders to create solutions

Communication/Stakeholders

• SVPs, VPs, Senior Directors and Sr Directors

• Internal comms managers

• Peers

• Legal

• HR Business Partners / Recruitment

• PMO / Strategy / Business Operations

• FP&A / Business Controller

Qualifications & Skills:

• 5-8 years relevant experience e.g. administration/ operational/ business support/executive assistant to VP/SVP, preferably in large/multinational organisation

• Having experience with managing matrixed teams is an advantage

• Creative and 'out of the box' thinking in order to proactively drive business

• People oriented; strong relationship and stakeholder management skills, and able to engage with people across all levels, and from diverse backgrounds

• Be curious: You seek to understand others before you act. You take the time to check both the “what” and “why” in ambiguous situations to allow you to navigate complexity in an open-minded way

• Commercially aware and results-driven with an independent and proactive attitude

• Highly organised with excellent planning skills. You take ownership and proactively solve problems, often before it reaches your SVP

• Exhibit a strong attention to detail, ability to adapt to daily schedules and routines, and focus on efficiency without sacrificing quality

• Excellent communication. Fluent in English, verbal and written (additional language(s) an advantage but not required)

• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to prioritise and make decisions without having all the information

• Strong ethics and can handle confidential matters with discretion. You cultivate and promote the Booking.com values and culture within the department

• Be an active member of the Leadership Support community, both across departments and within your own department

• Available to offer support outside of normal business hours, or travel internationally, as required

• Excellent with Google suite, including Google Calendar, Google Sheets/Slides (or similar)

• Passionate about AI and automation - keen to simplify and enable

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive , as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave

• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)

• Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit

Application Process:

• Let’s go places together:

• This role does not come with relocation assistance.

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.

An individual contributor role assigned to support a Business Information Security Officer (BISO) who is assigned to one or more Business Units (BU). The role is an embedded Security, Safety, & Fraud (SS&F) analyst responsible for supporting the BISO in driving the SS&F strategy within each BU; partnering with SS&F to support delivery of products/tools/services that are fit for purpose. Within the BU, the BSA works primarily with the Tech and Product teams with the aim to improve the security, safety, and fraud risk posture of the BU. The role supports BU’s adoption of the SS&F capabilities and standards and the continuous improvement of the latter based on BU feedback and requirements. By identifying BU gaps and risks related to SS&F, the BSA supports the BISO in enabling the business to achieve their goals while addressing their most relevant risks.

Role Description:

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

Responsible for:

• • Assessing, identifying, reporting, and monitoring the SS&F risks within the BU by supporting the BISO in periodic and relevant insights to BU leadership that drive risk based decisions and prioritization of actions

  • Champions and promotes SS&F awareness in the BU

  • Support in building productive relationships with business stakeholders

  • Representing the BISO at meetings and act on behalf of as requested

Consulted for:

• • Support the BISO in delivering operational and tactical security improvements in line with the overarching security strategy while supporting the Business Information Security Officer (BISO)

  • Understanding and keeping up to date with BU specific SS&F related security regulations

  • BU and SS&F collaboration support

  • Feedback and BU requirements towards the SS&F capabilities and services for continuous improvement

  • Support and analysis of SS&F risk acceptances

  • Support and analysis of SS&F risk remediation and mitigation activities

  • Support and analysis during SS&F incidents management

Experience & Skills:

• 3 to 5 years of experience in one or more of Cyber Security, Safety, and Fraud topics

• Understanding of technology processes and practices (e.g., change management, Secure Software Development Lifecycle, Identity and Access Management, IR, Incident Management, Data Governance)

• Experience in IT Risk Management

• Excellent English communication skills

• Experience in stakeholder management and ability to effectively engage and influence individual technical staff

• Creative problem-solver able to communicate concepts to a limited audience and create clarity

• Additional cybersecurity qualifications such as CISM, CISSP, CISA, CRISC, AIGP, or similar are an advantage

• Organized, with attention to detail and execution skills

• Experience in the analysis and assessment of security programs

• Good understanding of security best practices and standards such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO27001, and PCI DSS

• Experience participating in security, safety, and fraud incident response activities

Other personal characteristics:

• Open minded, respectful, high emotional intelligence, and collaborative work style

• Comfortable with ambiguity, creating clarity

• Achieving data driven, collaborative solutions

• Good communication, consulting, and influencing skills

• Integrity and independent thinking

• Thrives in fast-paced, demanding environments

• Learning demeanor, transparent behaviour

• Good problem solver able to roll up sleeves to get things done

• Committed to building a diverse, inclusive work environment

• Good time management and organizational skills to manage multiple tasks and changing priorities

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience

Benefits & Perks: Global Impact, Personal Relevance:

• Possibility to live and work in Amsterdam, named as the best city in the World for living a happy and healthy life

• International and diverse company culture;

• Possibility to innovate through multiple company programs (e.g. Hackathon, twice a year)

• Opportunity to work in an Agile, startup-like development environment

• Excellent support for personal development through online platforms

• Mentorship programs to accelerate skills growth

• Contribute to the company tech transformational journey toward a more modern tech stack

• Inclusive leadership, valuing the opinion of everyone independently of their career level

• Great compensation package

• Multiple perks that will make your life easier (e.g. discounts to local shops, discounted gym membership, etc.)

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.

Role Description:

As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll collaborate with top-notch engineers and data scientists to elevate our platform to the next level and deliver exceptional user experiences. Your primary focus will be on the data engineering aspects—ensuring the seamless flow of high-quality, relevant data to train and optimize content models, including GenAI foundation models, supervised fine-tuning, and more.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance data pipelines.

• Dealing with massive textual sources to train GenAI foundation models.

• Solving issues with data and data pipelines, prioritizing based on customer impact.

• End-to-end ownership of data quality in our core datasets and data pipelines.

• Experimenting with new tools and technologies to meet business requirements regarding performance, scaling, and data quality.

• Providing tools that improve Data Quality company-wide, specifically for ML scientists.

• Providing self-organizing tools that help the analytics community discover data, assess quality, explore usage, and find peers with relevant expertise.

• Acting as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions

• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences, and active community participation

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams: Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and analysts to understand business requirements and translate them into machine learning solutions. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.

• Minimum of 6 years of experience as a Data Engineer or a similar role, with a consistent record of successfully delivering ML/Data solutions.

• You have built production data pipelines in the cloud, setting up data-lake and server-less solutions; ‌ you have hands-on experience with schema design and data modeling and working with ML scientists and ML engineers to provide production level ML solutions.

• You have experience designing systems E2E and knowledge of basic concepts (lb, db, caching, NoSQL, etc)

• Strong programming skills in languages such as Python and Java.

• Experience with big data processing frameworks such, Pyspark, Apache Flink, Snowflake or similar frameworks.

• Demonstrable experience with MySQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB or similar relational/NoSQL database systems.

• Experience with Data Warehousing and ETL/ELT pipelines

• Experience in data processing for large-scale language models like GPT, BERT, or similar architectures - an advantage.

• Proficiency in data manipulation, analysis, and visualization using tools like NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib - an advantage.

• Experience with experimental design, A/B testing, and evaluation metrics for ML models - an advantage.

• Experience of working on products that impact a large customer base - an advantage.

• Excellent communication in English; written and spoken.

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive , as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave

• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)

• Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit

Application Process:

• Let’s go places together:

• This role does not come with relocation assistance.

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.

Our key focus areas include:

• Compliance platform: Leverages state-of-the-art technology to execute comprehensive sanctions screening across multiple dimensions.

• Screening & Monitoring: Develop and implement systems to screen partners/customers data, transactions, and business relationships.

• Risk Identification & Mitigation: Identify potential risks, flag suspicious activities, and collaborate with compliance teams to resolve them effectively.

• Regulatory Reporting: Ensure adherence to international regulations by generating accurate, timely reports for regulators and stakeholders.

• Technology Enhancement: Continuously improve algorithms and tools to enhance screening accuracy, reduce false positives, and streamline workflows.

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 Engineer is expected to work together with colleagues in other job roles to design, prioritize and implement complex technical tasks. Senior Software Engineer is expected to coach and mentor more junior engineers and be a thought leader in their team ensuring best practices are being implemented.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Leading the design of complex systems, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and high performance. Making architectural decisions that align with business requirements and technical constraints.

• Providing guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers. Conducting code reviews, sharing best practices, and helping develop the technical skills of the team.

• Writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code. Ensuring code quality by implementing tests and adhering to coding standards and design patterns.

• Working closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, and other engineering teams, to align technical development with business goals.

• Staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and best practices. Actively contributing to improving processes, performance, and technical solutions. Driving innovation within the team or organization.

• Minimum of 6 years of software development with extensive architectural design experience and guiding teams; using 2 or more server-side programming languages. Experience with Java is a must

• Experience with micro-services is a must

• Experience with building highly scalable distributed systems and batch processing pipelines with a focus on data integrity

• Experience with multiple data storage technologies, Relational (MySQL) and NoSQL

• Experience with AWS (DynamoDB, RDS, Glue, EC2) is a plus.

• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing paradigms

• Experience with defining and upholding SLOs/KPIs and participating in architecture reviews for systems

• Experience with Regulation, compliance policies is a plus

• Past experience with payments or FinTech is a plus

• Experience with security challenges for authentication and authorization

• Experience of working on products that impact a large customer base and have a company-wide impact.

• Experience in working with teams, colleagues spread across geographical locations is a plus.

• Preferably a university degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or similar

• Excellent communication; written and spoken

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive , as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave

• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)

• Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit

• 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;

• Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit

• Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions

• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation

• Need more flexibility in your work week? We are happy to consider part-time, and reduced working week opportunities* (min. 32 hours per week, subject to terms and conditions)

Application Process

• Let’s go places together:

• This role does not come with relocation assistance

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.