Software Engineering - IC - E

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Fullstack Engineer 1 - (2 to 5 years)

Who are we?

Booking Holdings is the world’s leading provider of online travel & related services, provided to

consumers and local partners in more than 220 countries and territories through six primary

consumer-facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, Rentalcars.com, KAYAK and OpenTable.

Collectively, Booking Holdings operates in more than 40 languages across Europe, North America,

South America, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and Africa. The mission of Booking Holdings

is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

Booking Holdings Bangalore is a Center of Excellence based in Bangalore, India and a legal

entity of Booking Holdings Inc. The Center 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 the Booking Holdings brands and business units.

About The Role

As a Fullstack developer, you will be developing and optimizing applications, ensuring they are

scalable, flexible and high performing.You will be responsible for your work across the tech stack.

This role will be backend heavy and frontend working knowledge is a plus.

Primary responsibility -

Implementation of technical solutions based on business requirements.
Estimation of effort and impact of the items you work on.
Show high quality of craft/work in what you deliver.
Understanding the quality of automated tests is equally important as production code

and spending time refactoring both, when needed, to ensure ease of change enabling a

sustainable pace of development.

Collaborate with colleagues in other job roles and teams to design, prioritise and

implement technical tasks.

Depending on the nature of work, the deliverables can range from product features to

infrastructure automation, frameworks, tooling or services.

Partner with Senior Engineers and your peers to build new capabilities & reuse existing

capabilities as much as possible.

Own the design and delivery of software solutions based on business requirements,

deploying and monitoring code in production with some supervision

Role Qualifications And Requirements

A minimum of 3 years of experience in full stack web application development.
Proven expertise with one or more server-side programming languages, including (Ex.

Node.js, Java), preferably Node.js.

Strong proficiency in modern front-end technologies and frameworks (e.g., JavaScript,

TypeScript, React, Vue.js, or Angular), preferably React.

Extensive experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and

familiarity with NoSQL databases.

Prior experience with implementing microservices, and microfrontends.
Experience working on horizontal platform products is a significant advantage.
Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like

Kubernetes is a plus.

Working Knowledge of Cloud environments (AWS is preferred)

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

Technical Incident Management

Is responsible to address and resolve live production issues by mitigating the customer

impact within SLA

Is responsible to improve the overall reliability of systems by producing long term

solutions through root cause analysis

Is responsible to keep track of incidents by contributing to postmortem processes and

logging live issues

Architectural Guidance

Has basic knowledge to advise product teams towards a technical solution that meets

the functional, nonfunctional & architectural requirements by challenging the rationale

for an application design and providing context in the wider architectural landscape

Has basic knowledge to set a clear direction for a technical capability by evaluating and

aligning the target architecture improvements, reframing architectural designs and

decisions for varied stakeholder

Software Systems Design

Has sufficient knowledge to evaluate possible architecture solutions by taking into

account cost, business requirements, technology requirements and emerging

technologies

Has sufficient knowledge to describe the implications of changing an existing system or

adding a new system to a specific area, by having a broad, high-level understanding of

the infrastructure and architecture of our systems

Has sufficient knowledge to help grow the business and/or accelerate software

development by applying engineering techniques (e.g. prototyping, spiking and vendor

evaluation) and standards

Has sufficient knowledge to meet business needs by designing solutions that meet

current requirements and are adaptable for future enhancements

Critical Thinking

Is responsible to systematically identify patterns and underlying issues in complex

situations, and to find solutions by applying logical and analytical thinking.

Is responsible to constructively evaluate and develop ideas, plans and solutions by

reviewing them, objectively taking into account external knowledge, initiating 'SMART'

improvements and articulating their rationale.

Continuous Quality and Process Improvement

Has sufficient knowledge to identify opportunities for process, system and structural

improvements (i.e performance gains) by examining and evaluating current process

flows, methods and standards.

Has sufficient knowledge to design and implement relevant improvements by defining

adapted/new process flows, standards, and practices that enable business

performance.

Effective Communication

Is responsible to deliver clear, well-structured, and meaningful information to a target

audience by using suitable communication mediums and language tailored to the

audience

Is responsible to achieve mutually agreeable solutions by staying adaptable,

communicating ideas in clear coherent language and practicing active listening

Is responsible to ask relevant (follow-up) questions to properly engage with the speaker

and really understand what they are saying, by applying listening and reflection

techniques

Key Skills