Engineering Manager - FinTax, FinTech

About us: At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. Through our products, partners and people, we can empower everyone to experience the world.

The FinTech business unit – with teams in Amsterdam, Bangalore, London and Shanghai – develops new products and drives innovation to help us continue removing financial friction from the travel process. That makes buying and selling travel-related products and services simpler for both travelers and partners.

Role Overview

As part of the Billing/Taxes track within Financial Systems, the FinTax for Business team owns the future-proof tax rule setup, data collection and determination engine, used by the Billing Platform and Payments Platform to collect taxes accurately and in a compliant way from our supply partners. The team is directly responsible for delivering critical Must-Do priority items and requires an Engineering Manager able to do extensive stakeholder management along with guiding the team on reaching the north star architecture.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

People Leadership

• Directly manage engineers
• Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborative
• Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team
• Foster a great culture that promotes innovation, work together as a team, partner with other Booking.com teams 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

Qualifications & Skills

• Experience in software development with proficiency in one of the following languages: Java, Objective-C, Swift, JavaScript, or Perl
• Experience managing a team of engineers in a fast paced, complex environment
• Experience developing large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with DevOps best practices like reliability fundamentals, CI/CD, Test Engineering, Observability
• Familiarity with Agile best practices for the full software development life cycle like coding standards, code reviews, version control in Git
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL Databases
• Experience working with cloud technologies like AWS, GoogleCloud, Docker, or Kubernetes
• Experience in FinTech, Tax/Compliance topics is a plus

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 - 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
• Need more flexibility in your work week? We are happy to consider part-time, and reduced working week opportunities* (min. 32 hours per week, subject to terms and conditions)

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.