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Engineering Manager - Flights

Geplaatst 22 mrt. 2024
Werkervaring
2 tot 5 jaar
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Soort opleiding
Taalvereisten
Engels (Vloeiend)
Nederlands (Vloeiend)

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Flights Mission and Purpose

Our flight business is one of the cornerstones of the connected trip. We ought to offer the best and most convenient flights to every customer, those that start their trip by buying a flight or those that are complementing their existing journey with a flight. We will do this by having the best inventory available at the most competitive prices powering a site that solves all the pain points of booking a flight today.

Our ideal candidate is passionate about people’s growth, innovation and ability to find technical solutions to deliver the ideal product with experience in designing and developing distributed systems. We make all of our decisions based on experiments and testing, so you should be excited by taking a data-led approach to development. If you believe you’re also a passionate advocate for the user, and are looking to work in an agile, collaborative environment then we would like to hear from you!

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The Engineering Manager within the Flights business primarily manages, coaches and develops an engineering team, ensuring the development of both (the individual and team as a whole) are in line with organisational objectives and direction. You will be responsible for timely delivery of new features and with good quality. In addition to this, you will confer with leaders, and key stakeholders and determine engineering feasibility, cost effectiveness, scalability and time-to-market for new and existing products. The ideal candidate is strong technically and has people management experience.

Responsible

People Leadership

  • Inspire, motivate and directly manage engineers in multiple teams and in various roles;
  • Solve business problems, work cross-functionally and lead initiatives to improve our development process and business opportunities within Booking.com,
  • Take initiative to address the larger technical needs of the product you work on and always keep the customer at the center of everything you do,
  • Contribute to the growth of Booking.com through recruitment efforts and proactively share your knowledge to help your colleagues grow,
  • Represent Booking.com values, both within the company and in the external community,
  • Advocate for a collaborative working environment – turn “my ideas” into “our ideas”
  • Nurture, grow and develop talent in the team;
  • Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating.
  • Foster a great culture that innovates, work together as a team, partner with other Booking.com com teams and roles and celebrates unified success

Technology, Craft & Delivery

  • Technical Incident Management;
  • Combine hands on coding with working on impactful project(s) and supporting other team members;
  • Creating development, deployment, and integration plans;
  • Continuous Quality and Process Improvement;
  • Creating a culture of ownership and technical excellence;
  • Manage technical stakeholders in integrating solutions.
  • Contribute to the evolution of best practices across the department
  • Ability to get into the technical detail (where required) to coach, support and mentor the team
  • Delivery of the wider engineering strategic objectives

Architecture & Product Strategy

  • Thought partner for Product to define, shape and deliver the roadmap;
  • Build new products, processes and operational plans
  • Negotiate on the strategic importance of own product roadmap features
  • Architectural Ownership and Guidance;

Drive innovation in their own team: Skilled

  • Significant experience in software development
  • Experience leading and managing a team of engineers in a fast-paced and complex environment
  • Experience in flights industry is a plus.
  • Experience with Java is a must
  • Experience with Kafka, Cassandra and/ or MySQL is a plus
  • Deep experience with unit, integration and end-to-end testing paradigms.
  • Experience in defining and upholding SLOs/KPIs and conducting architecture reviews for systems.
  • A deep understanding of software development in a team, and a track record of developing and shipping software
  • Good technical background in handling big scale projects
  • Strong technical skills (Coding & System design) with ability to get hands-on with your team if needed
  • Strong people management skills and experience in dealing with complex people issues
  • Excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management experience, good commercial awareness and technical vision
  • Strong project management skills
  • You are a humble and thoughtful technology leader, you lead by example and gain your teammates’ respect through actions, not the title
  • Experience in flights industry is a plus.

Offered

  • Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travellers 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, behavioural 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 in the home city of Booking.com

Welcome to the world of Booking.com Compass. This is the space and community we have created at Booking.com for all of you who have just started navigating your first career journey.
If you join our unique 15-month Graduate Software Engineering Program or Data Science & Analytics Graduate Program in our Amsterdam office, you’ll be offered a permanent role with a clear pathway to step into the next career level.

ICT
Amsterdam
Actief in 70 landen
12.000 medewerkers
60% mannen - 40% vrouwen
Gemiddeld 32 jaar oud

Dit zeggen medewerkers

Canran Gou

Senior Software Engineer

Canran Gou

"One best thing I love about the graduate program is that it created a community from my day 1 in the company: a group of young professionals joining on the same day, learning and growing together in the company."

Zulal

IT Risk & Control Officer

Zulal

Amsterdam is the perfect city for me. A lot going on and very diverse, yet small enough to feel relaxed and at home in. And there’s a great mix of people at Booking.com too…the whole world is here.