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
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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.
