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Company Name: Booking
It wasn’t so long ago that booking a trip to see the Eiffel Tower, stroll down New York’s iconic Madison Avenue or feel the sand between our toes on Copacabana Beach was simply a matter of a few taps on our smartphone. In fact, that’s what we do at Booking.com. We make it easier for everyone to experience the world. And while that world might feel a little farther away right now, we’re busy preparing for when the world is ready to travel once more. Across our offices worldwide, we continue to innovate. To solve for some of the most complex challenges in travel and technology, and to plan for the exciting developments that lie ahead. With strategic long-term investments into what we believe the future of travel can be, we are opening up new career opportunities that will have a strong impact on our mission. We are united in the belief that our very human desire to explore the planet’s beauty and discover more about other people and cultures will endure. The world is waiting for us. Together, we will be ready.
The The Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning Platform data drives our decisions. To do it more effectively we are building a platform for data scientists. Our Machine Learning Platform is behind what makes Booking able to deliver personal experiences and you will be a part of its development helping to support multiple areas of the business as they use ML to tackle some of the hardest problems that we face, from detecting fraud to recommending which properties you should check for your next stay. Our Machine Learning Production team is responsible for developing and managing the infrastructure and services in charge of hosting hundreds of machine learning models and serving millions of predictions per second for the rest of the company with strict low latency constraints in a cost-effective manner.
The Senior Software Engineer - Data Governance & Modernization works on and drives the implementation of processes that govern how data is produced, consumed and managed, including governance, architecture, quality and compliance control monitoring & adherence, in order to meet the evolving business objectives and compliance requirements.
B.responsible
- Combine hands on coding with working on impactful project(s) and supporting other team members,
- Solve business problems, work cross-functionally and lead initiatives to improve our development process and business opportunities within Booking.com,
- Take initiative to address the larger technical needs of the product you work on and always keep the customer at the center of everything you do,
- Contribute to the growth of Booking.com through recruitment efforts and proactively share your knowledge to help your colleagues grow,
- Represent Booking.com values, both within the company and in the external community,
- Advocate for a collaborative working environment – turn “my ideas” into “our ideas”
B.Skilled
- You have strong programming skills and experience with at least two server-side programming languages, Java or Scala specific knowledge is an advantage.
- You have 5+ years of experience as a Software E, you’ve worked with distributed systems and product(s) that impact millions of customers,
- You understand business well, can grasp and explain complex concepts and make pragmatic decisions.
- You know how to keep a critical system up and running, understand reliability, can troubleshoot effectively, and are comfortable performing incident management,
- You have experience working on low latency services, and can guarantee performance even when traffic scales to hundreds of thousands of requests per second; You can profile production applications to identify performance bottlenecks,
- Proven experience in owning and leading technical projects.
- Experience running Machine Learning systems in production is a significant plus; knowledge on how to generate predictions for ML frameworks with high throughput and low latency is an advantage.
- Practical experience with containerized application deployment systems, particularly Kubernetes and Docker is a plus.
- You are a humble and thought leader, you lead by example and gain your teammates respect through your actions and not your title,
- You are an excellent communicator and you are able to influence and cooperate with people at all levels,
- You have driven successful technical and business related initiatives that improved productivity, performance and quality.
- You have a ‘can do’ attitude and you act proactively and not reactively.
- It would be great if you have prior experience with mentoring, coaching and training team members
B.Offered
- 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 travellers 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, behavioural 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
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, colour, 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:
If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.
