Role Description:
About the team:
The NoSQL and Content Services track, comprising several teams across the Netherlands and India, provides a 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.
Role Description:
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, work together as a team, partner 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, 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 & 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:
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
Living and working in Amsterdam, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe
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 in the home city of Booking.com
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at Booking.com:
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion have been a core part of our company culture since day one. 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.
Take it from our Chief People Officer, Paulo Pisano: “At Booking.com, the diversity of our people doesn’t just build an outstanding workplace, it also creates a better and more inclusive travel experience for everyone. Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. It’s a place where you can make your mark and have a real impact in travel and tech.”
We ensure that colleagues with disabilities are provided the adjustments and tools they need to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
Application Process:
Booking.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.
