Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and 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 our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.

Role description

Marketing (Partnerships) department is composed of 300+ people in 20+ countries driving a significant share of Booking.com’s overall business. The department brings Booking.com experience to a wide audience through partnerships with many airlines, Amazon, and others to offer our products to their customers. Our technology and products make it easy for Partners to access and distribute our content and inventory.

As a Software Engineer you will work in a new development team in our Bucharest Centre of Excellence which will become an integral part of the Marketing (Partnerships) in Booking.com, joining existing teams in our Amsterdam HQ. Your role would be to integrate new verticals like flights and attractions while developing and improving existing systems.

This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties 

• Responsible for the development, performance, and scaling of our public facing API as well as internal systems
• Work independently as part of an autonomous team and be responsible for making technical decisions within a team
• Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems
• Solving issues with the API and internal systems, prioritizing based on customer impact
• Acting as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Contributing to the growth of Booking.com through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• 3+  years software development experience; using 2 or more server side programming languages. Preferably Java, C#, C++, etc.
• Experience in building and maintaining large scale API’s 
• Experience with Springboot and Kafka is nice to have
• Previous experience with distributed systems
• Experience of building for large scale scale
• Continuous Quality and Process Improvement
• Modern engineering best practices (TDD, observability, cloud computing, DDD….)
• 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
• Excellent communication; written and spoken

Benefits & Perks

• 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
• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package 
• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

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.