Engineering Manager - Collection & Credit Risk, FinTech

Role Description

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.

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.

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 with SAP HANA

• 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

Benefits & Perks - Global Impact, Personal Relevance

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• 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)