The Order Platform is the home for all reservation data in Booking.com. Every time a customer clicks on the book button, we become the source of truth of the reservation that was made. We orchestrate its creation and any other subsequent changes, we store the data and make it available via multiple access patterns.
We build components and services that serve all product groups (accommodations, flights, rental cars, taxis, attractions etc.), and also many downstream business units (Finance, Customer Service, Machine Learning Services, Marketing, Partner Service etc.).
We enable the business to quickly check out orders, sell new products, execute and add new workflows, trigger AI and automated feedback to order events, help the customer, and generate order reports and views.
We build highly available, data intensive, and large scale Java services on top of industry leading technologies. We put the business, reliability, data governance, and compliance at the center of everything we do.
B.responsible
As a Software Developer, you are responsible for the development, performance, and scaling of our public website as well as internal systems. 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 systems.
- 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
- Testing; we run thousands of experiments running at one time. We built one of the most advanced A/B testing platforms in the industry.
- Most products are developed in Perl, but not all. Perl is very effective when it comes to rapid prototyping, which our product development teams do a lot of. It’s not necessary to know Perl before you start, but it helps. We are not just using the language, we influence the future of the language.
- Contributing to the growth of Booking.com through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts
B.skilled
We are looking for driven Developers who enjoy solving problems, who initiate solutions and discussions and who believe that any challenge can be scaled with the right mindset and tools.
We have found that people who match the following requirements are the ones who fit us best:
- Minimum of 3 years software development experience; using 2 or more server side programming languages. Preferably Perl, Java, Python, Scala, C++ etc.
- Previous experience with distributed systems
- Hands on experience of developing in and contributing to open source data technologies, such as Hadoop, Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Envoy, Jetty, Zookeeper, Protobuf
- Demonstrable experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL or similar relational databases
- Experience of working on products that impact a large customer base is an advantage
- Preferably a university degree in Mathematics or Software Engineering
- Excellent communication; written and spoken
B.offered
- Headquarters located in one of the most dynamic cities in Europe: Manchester
- Discount on Booking.com accommodations with the ‘Booking Deal’ including other perks and benefits
- Company-sponsored family and social activities to help our employees become integrated with each other
- Diverse and creative colleagues from every corner of the world
- Generous relocation package, ensuring a smooth transition to working and living in Manchester
Pre-Employment Screening:
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