Role Description:
This is role is to be based out of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:
Business Acumen, Consultancy: Understanding business principles and providing expert advice to solve business challenges.
Stakeholder Management, Collaboration, Communication: Effectively engaging with all parties involved, working together, and clearly conveying information to achieve shared goals.
Analysis, Innovation, Problem-Solving: Examining information to identify issues, developing creative solutions, and resolving complex challenges.
Leadership, Strategic Planning, Change Management, Mentoring: Guiding and inspiring teams, facilitating smooth transitions during organizational changes, and supporting the development of others. Providing excellent support to clients and developing long-term plans to achieve organizational objectives.
Systems Design: Evaluates architecture solutions, leads technical delivery, describes system implications, designs and defends solutions, possesses knowledge in data storage/security, and improves system health.
Technical Incident Management: Addresses production issues, improves reliability through root cause analysis, tracks incidents, and is responsible for triage/prioritization and system monitoring.
Automation and toil reduction: Ensures infrastructure currency, reduces technical debt, optimizes for scaling, ensures cost-efficient operations, reduces human labor with software features, possesses cloud technology knowledge, and works in a DevOps model.
Production systems best practices: Secures production systems, ensures compliance, reduces single points of failure, reduces impact of live issues with documentation, ensures compliance (SOx, PCI, PII, GDPR), ensures resiliency and uptime, runs backup/restore procedures, and has knowledge of configuration management and data retention.
Qualifications & Skills:
Experience in software development with proficiency in one of the coding languages: Java, SQL, Python, etx
Bachelor’s Degree In Computer Science, Computer Or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Or A Related Field Or 5 Years Of Progressively Responsible Experience In The Specialty As Equivalent
At least 5 years of engineering experience, including 3+ years of managing Saas applications used for productivity and collaboration such as Google Workspaces, Slack, Glean, Blink, JIRA, Confluence or similar applications
Business Applications Acumen: Strong understanding of Business Applications and a deep knowledge of Business like Booking.com.
Problem-Solving & Communication: A proactive, results-driven, and analytical mindset with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Experience with technologies like Mulesoft, Gitlab, or AWS, as well as a deep understanding of AI technologies.
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:
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Let’s go places together:
This role comes with relocation assistance.
Pre-Employment Screening
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.


