Software Engineer II

Company Intro

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world leader in online travel and related services, provided to customers and partners in over 220 countries and territories through six primary consumer-facing brands - Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline, Agoda.com, Rentalcars.com, and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. During 2019, the Company had consolidated revenues and net income of $15.1 billion and $4.9 billion, respectively, and a current market value of approximately $90 billion.

Booking Holdings Bangalore is a Center of Excellence based in Bangalore, India and a legal entity of Booking Holdings Inc. The Center was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of the Booking Holdings brands and business units.

What you’ll be doing:

As a Software Engineer II, you are responsible for the development, performance, and scaling of our services 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
• Self-starters with a collaborative, “can-do” attitude
• Solving issues with the systems, prioritizing based on customer impact
• Advocating development best practices within the team
• Be owner for teams’ micro-services and services
• Acting as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Understanding the business processes and how to best support our customers or clients (ex accommodations, attractions, flights, etc) while supporting the Payments department within the company with appropriate systems and tools
• Contributing to the growth of Booking.com through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts
  
  
  

What you’ll bring:

We are looking for driven developers who enjoy solving problems, who initiate solutions and discussions and who believe that any challenge can be scaled with the right mindset and tools.

We have found that people who match the following requirements are the ones who fit us best:

• Minimum of 5 years of software development experience; 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 RDMS (MySQL, Hadoop, Cassandra)
• 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 security challenges for authentication and authorization
• Experience with big data challenges is a must
• Experience of working on products that impact a large customer base and have a company-wide impact
• Excellent communication; written and spoken.
  
  
  

About BKNG

Booking Holdings is the world leader in online travel & related services. Our teams work around the clock to build and improve the technology that empowers people to more freely travel across borders, time zones, languages and cultures. At Booking Holdings, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world every day through seamless technology powered by our six major brands:

• Booking.com
• KAYAK
• priceline
• agoda
• Rentalcars.com
• OpenTable
  
  
  

Through the Booking Holdings brands, we help our customers reach all corners of the earth. Our ability to provide great service rests on how well we understand our diverse customer base, which is why having a diverse team is so important to us. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

EEO Statement:

Booking Holdings is an equal opportunity employer in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We ensure equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without discrimination or harassment based on race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

Booking Holdings also extends this policy to every phase of the employment process including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, placement, transfer, training and development, position elimination, restructure, promotion, compensation, benefits, layoffs, termination, and all other conditions or privileges of employment. Booking Holdings and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please email reasonableaccommodation@bookingholdings.com with your request. M/F/V/D/SO

Pre-Employment Screening

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