About Us: 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 encounter. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the memories you make. Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.
Leadership/Team Quote:
Enterprise Engineers in the Collaboration & Productivity track are the digital workplace enablers for all employees at Booking.com. Think of us as the productivity accelerators of our organization, clearing the path so thousands of colleagues can do their best work, every day.
Role Description:
We are looking for a Senior Enterprise Application Engineer for our Central Tech Business Unit in the The Business Applications team which is part of the Productivity & Collaboration Track within the IT Services organization part of Central Tech.
This is role is to be based out of Amsterdam, Netherlands
The purpose of this role is to enhance and maintain the enterprise applications that support Booking.com's operations, contributing to the overall efficiency and productivity of the company.
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:
- Business Acumen, Consultancy: Understanding business principles and providing expert advice to solve business challenges.
- Stakeholder Management, Collaboration, Communication: Effectively engaging with all parties involved, working together, and clearly conveying information to achieve shared goals.
- Analysis, Innovation, Problem-Solving: Examining information to identify issues, developing creative solutions, and resolving complex challenges.
- Leadership, Strategic Planning, Change Management, Mentoring: Guiding and inspiring teams, facilitating smooth transitions during organizational changes, and supporting the development of others. Providing excellent support to clients and developing long-term plans to achieve organizational objectives.
- Systems Design: Evaluates architecture solutions, leads technical delivery, describes system implications, designs and defends solutions, possesses knowledge in data storage/security, and improves system health.
- Technical Incident Management: Addresses production issues, improves reliability through root cause analysis, tracks incidents, and is responsible for triage/prioritization and system monitoring.
- Automation and toil reduction: Ensures infrastructure currency, reduces technical debt, optimizes for scaling, ensures cost-efficient operations, reduces human labor with software features, possesses cloud technology knowledge, and works in a DevOps model.
- Production systems best practices: Secures production systems, ensures compliance, reduces single points of failure, reduces impact of live issues with documentation, ensures compliance (SOx, PCI, PII, GDPR), ensures resiliency and uptime, runs backup/restore procedures, and has knowledge of configuration management and data retention.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Experience in software development with proficiency in one of the coding languages: Java, SQL, Python, etx
- Bachelor’s Degree In Computer Science, Computer Or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Or A Related Field Or 5 Years Of Progressively Responsible Experience In The Specialty As Equivalent
- At least 5 years of engineering experience, including 3+ years of managing Saas applications used for productivity and collaboration such as Google Workspaces, Slack, Glean, Blink, JIRA, Confluence or similar applications
- Business Applications Acumen: Strong understanding of Business Applications and a deep knowledge of Business like Booking.com.
- Problem-Solving & Communication: A proactive, results-driven, and analytical mindset with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience with technologies like Mulesoft, Gitlab, or AWS, as well as a deep understanding of AI technologies.
Benefits & Perks - Global Impact, Personal Relevance:
Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:
- Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave
- Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)
- Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit
Inclusion at Booking.com:
Inclusion has been a core part of our company culture since day one. This ongoing journey starts with our very own employees, who represent over 140 nationalities and a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations.
Take it from our Chief People Officer, Paulo Pisano: “At Booking.com, the diversity of our people doesn’t just build an outstanding workplace, it also creates a better and more inclusive travel experience for everyone. Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. It’s a place where you can make your mark and have a real impact in travel and tech.”
We ensure that colleagues with disabilities are provided the adjustments and tools they need to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
Application Process:
This section should provide:
- Let’s go places together: How we Hire
- This role comes with relocation assistance.
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
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