People Leadership
- Directly manage engineers
- Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating
- Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team
- Foster a great culture that innovates, work together as a team, partner with other Booking.com com teams and roles and celebrates unified success
- Respect the Booking.com values and use them as a guide to the way we work
Technology, Craft & Delivery
- Experience in designing and architecting APIs, dealing with high traffic
- Experience in large scale data processing and workflow management
- Mastery in technology leadership
- Engineering delivery, quality and practices within own team
- Delivery of the wider engineering strategic objectives
- Embed agile ways of working and company values within the team
- Ability to get into the technical detail (where required) to coach, support and mentor the team
- Adhere to the default principles for architecture, quality and non-functional requirements
- Contribute to the evolution of best practices across the department
- Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations
- Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies to be able to share learnings and apply these to a variety of projects when needed
Architecture & Product Strategy
- Define, shape and deliver the roadmap
- Build new products, processes and operational plans
- Negotiate on the strategic importance of own product roadmap features
- Drive innovation in the team
- Own the architecture across the team
Role Qualifications and Requirements:
- Experience in software development with proficiency in one of the following languages: Java, Objective-C, Swift, JavaScript, or Perl
- Experience managing a team of engineers in a fast paced, complex environment
- Experience developing large-scale distributed systems
- Experience with DevOps best practices like reliability fundamentals, CI/CD, Test Engineering, Observability
- Familiarity with Agile best practices for the full software development life cycle like coding standards, code reviews, version control in Git
- Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL Databases
- Experience working with cloud technologies like AWS, GoogleCloud, Docker, or Kubernetes
Benefits & Perks: Global Impact, Personal Relevance
- Headquarters located in one of the most dynamic and cosmopolitan cities in Europe: Amsterdam.
- Contribute to a high scale, sophisticated, extraordinary product and see the real time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide.
- Be part of a truly international fast paced environment and performance driven culture.
- Performance-based company that offers 29 vacation days, career advancement, and lucrative compensation, including bonuses and stock potential.
- Discount on Booking.com accommodations with the “Booking Deal” including other perks and benefits.
- Company-sponsored family and social activities to help our employees become integrated with each other and Dutch culture.
- Diverse and creative colleagues from every corner of the world.
- Health, life, and disability insurance*
- 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 for yourself, friends, and family, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and yearly Booking.com wallet credit.
- Free access to online learning platforms, development and mentorship programs, and a complimentary Headspace membership
- On-site meals, coffee, and snacks, including healthy and vegan options, daily*
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.
