Booking Holdings Romania - Software Engineer I

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.

 

Role description

We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our IAM team at our Bucharest office. As a member of the IAM team, you will be given the freedom to make meaningful and measurable improvements impacting the Authentication and Authorization of our employees and services. This is a unique chance to shape our security infrastructure for the foreseeable future as you will be responsible for improving reliability and scalability by designing, building and operating our own next-generation Access Management solution.

As a Backend Engineer in our Identity & Access Management capability, you are responsible for building a scalable and reliable solution and to make sure that we are following coding and design best practices.

Whether we’ll be searching for ways to improve the performance of the current application or to build new features, your expertise from a software development point of view will be highly valued. You will work independently and will also be responsible for making key technical decisions within a team. 

This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.

 

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties 

As a Backend Software Engineer in our Identity & Access Management capability, you are responsible for the development, performance, and scaling of our Authentication & Authorization infrastructure, as well as internal systems related to the platform. You will work independently and will also be responsible for making technical decisions within a team.

Important aspects of the job include:

• Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance services for the IAM Capability area, including central Access Management solution and Authentication infrastructure.

• Solving issues with the site and internal systems, prioritizing based on customer impact

• Acting as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences

• The product is mainly developed in Java, using either Spring or Dropwizard as core frameworks

 

Role Qualifications and Requirements

We are looking for driven Software Engineers who enjoy solving problems, who initiate solutions and discussions and who believe that any challenge can be scaled with the right mindset and tools.

• Minimum of 2 years software development experience using Java and Spring / Spring Boot

• Experience with other languages like Perl, Go, Python, Scala, C++ etc is a plus

• Previous experience with distributed systems and message brokers such as Apache Kafka..

• Experience with Elastic Stack (elasticsearch, kibana, logstash and beats)

• Knowledge of cloud computing fundamentals and experience with AWS and/or GCP

• Experience of working on products that impact a large customer base is an advantage

• Experience with Algorithms and building smart, scalable code

• Preferably a university degree in Mathematics or Software Engineering

Benefits & Perks

• 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

• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation

• Competitive compensation and benefits package 

• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

 

Booking Holdings 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.

Pre-Employment Screening

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