Software Engineer (Backend)

Join <Booking.com> as a Software Engineer (Backend) and be responsible for the development, performance, and scaling of our services and internal systems. You will work independently and make technical decisions within a team. You will rapidly develop next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems, solve issues with the systems, and advocate for development best practices. You will also act as an intermediary for problems with both technical and non-technical audiences, understand regulatory processes, and contribute to the growth of <Booking.com> through recruitment efforts.

• Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems.
• Solving issues with the systems, prioritizing based on customer impact, and advocating development best practices.
• Acting as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences, and understanding the regulatory processes.
• Experience with AWS (DynamoDB, RDS, Step functions, EC2, Kinesis) is a plus
• Experience with Regulation, compliance policies is a plus
• Experience in working with teams, colleagues spread across geographical locations is a plus
• Minimum of 2 years of software development experience; using 2 or more server-side programming languages. Experience with Java 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 (MySQL, Hadoop, Cassandra)
• Experience of working on products that impact a large customer base and have a company-wide impact
• Experience with micro-services is a must
• Past experience with payments or FinTech is a plus
• Experience with security challenges for authentication and authorization
• Experience with defining and upholding SLOs/KPIs and participating in architecture reviews for systems
• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing paradigms