Principal Software Engineer - Cars & Regulatory Tech

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world leader in online travel and related services, provided to customers and partners in over 220 countries and territories through six primary consumer-facing brands - Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline, Agoda.com, Rentalcars.com, and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. During 2019, the Company had consolidated revenues and net income of $15.1 billion and $4.9 billion, respectively, and a current market value of approximately $90 billion. 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 Role: At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you make. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the food you sample. Through our products, partners and people, we can empower everyone to experience the world. We’re a truly global e-commerce company, with business operations in nearly every country and city on the planet. And we want to make it easy for everyone, anywhere in the world, to pay for their travel or do business with our platform – whenever and however it’s convenient for them. Our Trips business unit – with teams in Amsterdam, Manchester, London and Bangalore – develops new products and drives innovation to help us continue removing friction from the travel experience. That makes buying and selling travel-related products and services simpler for both travelers and partners. As a Principal Software Engineer you will set the technical direction for a group of 50+ engineers and drive strategic projects across teams; through solution design, technical alignment, coaching and hands-on coding. You are a mentor and a visionary who explores new directions to achieve business goals and sets standards for technical excellence. What you’ll be doing: Lead design and serve as a tech lead of new features in a highly distributed, large scale, global platform that has a direct impact on the business, and on the experience of Booking.com’s customers and partners. Make strategic technical decisions in cross functional teams on implementation approach and technical choices to achieve product and business goals Influence engineering and product peers to effectively resolve technical blockers Hands-on develop proof of concepts and evaluate new technologies. Works closely with product owners and engineers to design, implement, and continually improve highly scalable, resilient applications and services. Provides technical guidance to other team members. Maintain a current understanding of industry and technology trends. Communicates and enforces technical standards. Advise product and engineering leadership on achieving strategic business objectives. Help align architectural directly between business units. Support and advice on hiring for senior engineering roles. Strengthen the engineering community and coach senior engineers in their further development What you’ll bring: 15+ years of software development experience, with a minimum of 4 years in a principal, lead or architect role. Experience mentoring and growing (senior) developers, not through reporting lines, but through thorough and convincing communication is preferred Excellent communication skills. Demonstrated ability to use data to influence and drive decisions Deep experience in collaborating with product and business stakeholders Strong customer focus and passion for doing the right thing for the customer. Deep experience developing and operating business critical systems. Proven hands-on experience in designing, building, improving and operating large scale, high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems in a fast growing environment. Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in Java, Microservices architecture, cloud, latest best practices in SDLC and building data driven applications. Ability to design and solve complex business problems by writing simple, effective code. Eager to work in multiple programming languages and frameworks and constantly striving to raise technical excellence. Ability to convince, provide work direction and leadership to colleagues who do not directly report to this role. In return, we’ll provide: Work with a group of truly first class engineers. 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 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. As a Principal Software Engineer you will set the technical direction for a group of 50+ engineers and drive strategic projects across teams; through solution design, technical alignment, coaching and hands-on coding. You are a mentor and a visionary who explores new directions to achieve business goals and sets standards for technical excellence. EEO Statement: Booking Holdings is an equal opportunity employer in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We ensure equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without discrimination or harassment based on race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Booking Holdings also extends this policy to every phase of the employment process including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, placement, transfer, training and development, position elimination, restructure, promotion, compensation, benefits, layoffs, termination, and all other conditions or privileges of employment. Booking Holdings and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. 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