Engineering Manager - NoSQL Tooling

Role Description

The NoSQL and Content Services track, comprising several teams across the Netherlands and India, provides performant, reliable, compliant, and highly scalable data services solutions for the entire company, managing thousands of servers through sophisticated proprietary automation. In addition to platform operations, the track is responsible for content hosting and for enabling teams to migrate to and consume diverse cloud data services conveniently and compliantly. To accelerate cloud adoption, enhance system resilience, incorporate best practices, data governance, and compliance requirements, these teams are being expanded with new teams in India/Bangalore.

This role entails building and leading a cross-location Amsterdam-Bangalore team, designed to integrate symmetrically with the existing teams. The new team will be responsible for the developer experience, including custom tools and features, integrations with existing systems, portals, and client solutions of the data services, to make it easy for the product teams to use the data services, thereby allowing them to concentrate on innovation.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

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, works together as a team, partners with other Booking.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

• 6+ years of experience in software development, preferably with Python, Java, or Go
• At least 3 years of experience leading and managing a team of engineers in a fast-paced and complex environment
• Experience with operating NoSQL databases and cache services is a plus
• Experience working with public cloud providers such as AWS
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform is a plus
• Experience working with Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience working with distributed teams
• Ability to manage multiple teams is a plus
• A deep understanding of software development in a team, and a track record of developing and shipping software
• Strong technical skills (coding and system design) with ability to get hands-on with your team if needed
• Excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management experience, good commercial awareness and technical vision
• You have driven successful technical, business and people-related initiatives that improved productivity, performance and quality
• You are a humble and thoughtful technology leader, you lead by example and gain your teammates’ respect through actions, not the title
• Analytical skills and data-driven mindset

Benefits & Perks - Global Impact, Personal Relevance

• 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 of 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
• Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks of working at Booking.com