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.
This is a great opportunity to be part of a cross functional team influencing the strategy and roadmap of the product while building systems at scale.
Senior Software Engineer, Android - Organic Marketing
Organic Marketing is responsible for providing the best-in-class user experience to our customers from various marketing channels like search engines, meta search etc. We build and improve hundreds of thousands of web pages constantly to cater to the needs of customers in 40+ languages by providing relevant content & varied selection of properties, flights, car rental and taxis across all platforms.
We are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Software Engineer, Android to join our team to build products that would cater to the demand of our millions of everyday customers. In this position you will help in our mission to become the #1 travel app in the world. This is an exciting opportunity to drive mobile apps as well as backend infrastructure improvements.
Key Job Responsibilities And Duties
Our guiding principle is that by helping our users we help our business, so we listen to our customers and give them features they want to use. As a developer in our mobile team you'll be a key part of the idea generation process, working in a small start up-like group which takes full ownership of its part of our platform. You'll be working on implementing larger changes to our mobile app and backend infrastructure as well as do iterative improvements we make as part of our high-speed release cycles. In this role, you will:
- Develop new features for our Android app
- Optimize UI for performance
- Monitor and understand customer behaviour
- Build native Android components
Own and improve backend infrastructure
- Collaborate with other developers, designers, product managers & marketeers
- Experimenting and Testing; we run thousands of experiments at one time to understand and improve user experience with one of the most advanced A/B testing platforms in the industry
- Supplying to a collaborative working environment - make “my ideas” into “our ideas”
- Identifying, fostering, and proactively helping colleagues to grow professionally, taking a significant role in on-boarding new team members
- Contributing to the growth of Booking.com through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts
- This role will be required to work on an on-call rotation
Role Qualifications and Requirements
- 7+ years of experience as an Engineer with Kotlin and/or Java
- At least 3 years of this experience must be from working with Android SDK
- Experience with automated testing and deployment of Android apps
Knowledge of one or more backend programming languages, e.g. Java, Perl, etc.
- Knowledge of Object-Oriented concepts and a strong passion for software development
- Experience with MySQL or similar RDBMS, GraphQL is an advantage
- Experience w/ AWS
- Experience with A/B testing
- Self-starter, highly motivated & team-player
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience of working on products that impact a large customer base
- You have a ‘can do’ attitude and you act proactively and not reactively
(Bonus)
- Experience with Google Play Store & Apps Distribution Process
- An approved Play Store app
- Experience with server-driven UI framework development e.g. Flutter, ReactNative
- Building microservices and micro frontends
Benefits & Perks: Global Impact, Personal Relevance
- Headquarters located in one of the most dynamic cities in Europe: Amsterdam
- Performance-based company that offers 29 vacation days, career advancement, and lucrative compensation, including bonuses and stock potential
- Discount on Booking.com accommodations with the “Booking Deal” including other perks and benefits
- Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences, and active community participation
- Company-sponsored community and social activities to help our employees become integrated with each other and Dutch culture
- Diverse and creative colleagues from every corner of the world
- Generous relocation package, ensuring a smooth transition to working and living in Amsterdam
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, color, 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.
