Who are we?
At Booking.com, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world. We began by taking hotel bookings online over 20 years ago and we’ve been shaping the travel industry ever since. Today, we’re building a platform that connects all parts of the trip – from accommodation to transport, tickets, tours and more. A software developer owns the execution of technical elements in the Booking.com tech stack, products and processes. They are responsible for the implementation of technical solutions based on business requirements, they can estimate the effort and impact of the items they work on, and show a high quality of craft in what they deliver. A developer understands the quality of test automation is as important as the production code and spends time refactoring both to ensure ease of change enabling a sustainable pace of development. Developers are expected to work together with colleagues in other job roles to design, prioritize and implement technical tasks. Because the required technical skills and commercial knowledge can vary from one business unit to another, a developer can focus on multiple types of work from product features to infrastructure automation, frameworks, tooling or services.
Where are we going?
Our Vision Is Clear
- Seamless Travel Experience: We're committed to delivering a frictionless customer experience driven by data, machine learning, and AI.
- Cloud-Centric Approach: We're cloud-native by design, with a focus on continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and automation at our core.
- Domain-Oriented: We organize our ecosystem around product domains to optimize efficiency and innovation.
- Agile DevOps Teams: Our cross-functional agile teams own their products and operate in a DevOps environment.
- Engineering Excellence: We emphasize great engineering practices, starting with TDD and BDD principles, and prioritize product metrics and non-functional requirements from the beginning.
Skills We Are Looking For
Building software applications
- Is responsible to build software applications by using relevant development languages and applying knowledge of systems, services and tools appropriate for the business area
- Is responsible to write readable and reusable code by applying standard patterns and using standard libraries
- Is responsible to refactor and simplify code by introducing design patterns when necessary
- Is responsible to ensure the quality of the application by following standard testing techniques and methods that adhere to the test strategy
- Is responsible to maintain data security, integrity and quality by effectively following company standards and best practices.
End to End System Ownership
- Has sufficient knowledge to own a service end to end by actively monitoring application health and performance, setting and monitoring relevant metrics and act accordingly when violated
- Has sufficient knowledge to reduce business continuity risks and bus factor by applying state-of-the-art practices and tools, and writing the appropriate documentation such as runbooks and OpDocs
- Has sufficient knowledge to reduce risk and obtain customer feedback by using continuous delivery and experimentation frameworks
- Has sufficient knowledge to independently manage an application or service by working through deployment and operations in production