Full Stack Software Engineer II - Marketplace, Trip Planning

As the Trip Planning Hub team our mission is to create a single place where travelers can go to see everything they’re interested in, have saved or have already booked for an upcoming trip across our platforms. Being part of the Multi-vertical Trip Experience we are at the core of bridging the Booking of today into the Booking of tomorrow and being responsible for the evolution of Booking from a single product company to a multi-product offering company with an unprecedented, personalised travel experience at the heart of its success.

Given our ambition to connect all these aspects together for customers we describe our team as “horizontal” within Booking.com. Key to success in achieving our vision is collaborating, partnering, and influencing wide swaths of the organisation. If you thrive with the challenge of delivering and orchestrating sophisticated work across many collaborators then read on!

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

As a Full Stack Developer, you are responsible for developing world-class, complete web applications, both on the backend and frontend, for monitoring and addressing performance and security, and for developing customer-focused and scalable user experiences. You will work side-by-side with designers, product owners, copywriters and other developers to create new features, test your own ideas, and push changes live for billions of users.

• Deliver web applications from an idea, inception and validation to a scalable solution.
• Collaborate with colleagues to ideate solutions for users, prioritizing based on business impact, and safely rolling them out and validating them.
• Develop new user-facing products and optimize existing ones using both client-side as well as server-side languages and technologies
• Experience building all of the following are a plus: web applications, APIs, and CLIs
• Self-starters with a collaborative, “can-do” attitude and solid communication and interpersonal skills
• Quick delivery of end-to-end solutions to validate ideas and iterating on those ideas to produce quality products
• Passionate learners who aren’t afraid of new tools and technologies to build great end-to-end customer experience
• Demonstrably high understanding of how their contributions impact the business

Role Qualifications and Requirements:

• A minimum of 3 years of experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Perl, Java, PHP, Python, Elixir, Go, or Node.js
• Expert level proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript
• Expert level proficiency in front-end development with JavaScript (React.JS)
• Excellent understanding of backend and front-end systems design
• Experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages like Java
• Experience with relational data storage and SQL
• Experience with containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with data-driven product development: analytics, A/B testing, etc.
• Experience working on a command line in a Linux/Shell environment.
• Experience working with “CI/CD”
• Experience with full cycle development: design, develop, test, deploy, operate, and support.
• Interest in working with developer tooling, observability, or release engineering

Benefits & Perks: Global Impact, Personal Relevance:

• 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.

#ThinkInclusion: Wellbeing & Inclusion at Booking.com:

Booking.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We’re committed to fostering a more inclusive Booking.com experience for the millions of travellers, partners and communities around the world who use our platform every day. This ongoing journey starts with our very own employees, who represent over 140 nationalities and a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations.

Pre-Employment Screening

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