Role Overview-
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties：
As a Senior Software Engineer , you are responsible for the development, performance, and scaling of our public website as well as internal systems. You will work independently and will also be responsible for making technical decisions within a team.
Important aspects of the job include:
Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems.
Solving issues with the site and internal systems, prioritizing based on customer impact
Acting as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences
Testing; we run thousands of experiments running at one time. We built one of the most advanced A/B testing platforms in the industry.
Most products are developed in Perl, but not all. Perl is very effective when it comes to rapid prototyping, which our product development teams do a lot of. It’s not necessary to know Perl before you start, but it helps. We are not just using the language, we influence the future of the language.
Contributing to the growth of Booking.com through interviewing, on-boarding, or or other recruitment efforts
Qualifications & Skills:
We have found that people who match the following requirements are the ones who fit us best:
7+ years software development experience; using 2 or more server side programming languages. Preferably Perl, Java, Python, Scala, C++ etc.
Previous experience with distributed systems
Hands on experience of developing in and contributing to open source data technologies, such as Hadoop
Demonstrable experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL or similar relational databases
Experience of working on products that impact a large customer base is an advantage
Preferably a university degree in Mathematics or Software Engineering
Fluent Chinese and English skills both written and reading.
This role may be required to work on an on-call rotation
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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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.
