Booking.com is looking for an experienced Software Developer who is passionate about software engineering, who thrives on challenge, believes in success through collaboration and is eager to learn Perl. As a Software Developer you will get to work on a large scale, complex, world renowned product and witness real time impact of your work. We offer an international, result-driven, fun, and dynamic environment. If scale and complexity excite you, Booking.com is the place to B!
B.responsible
Our technical culture derives strongly from our strong ties to the Perl community. We appreciate what open source means both for our business and also for internal projects. Some of our most useful hacks inside the company have come from someone scratching the proverbial itch.
Even if you do not know Perl, Booking’s Perl rock stars will help you get up to speed in order to be able to start solving real problems from day one. Our software development strategy is agile and we work in small Scrum teams of 5-7. We do several rollouts every day, are data-driven and do extensive A/B testing.
Important aspects of the job include:
- Being responsible for the software development, performance, and scaling of our public website as well as internal systems, which includes using: Perl (5.14), DBI, Mason, Moose, Sereal, Plack, nginx, Javascript, MySQL, Memcached, Redis, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, git, and CentOS Linux;
- Working independently and being responsible for making technical decisions within your team;
- Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems;
- Solving issues with the site and internal systems, prioritizing based on customer impact;
- Acting as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences;
- Collaborating with the team, Team Leaders and Product Owners to prioritize projects.
B.skilled
- You have a minimum of 4 years of hardcore software development experience with more than one programming language, e.g. Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Ruby or PHP;
- You are eager to learn Perl;
- You are great at solving problems and not afraid to initiate solutions and discussions;
- You have developed in and contributed to open source;
- You have experience with HTTP and server-side technologies (web servers, database servers);
- You are a self-starter, independent worker and like to work in small teams.
B.offered
We are a performance-based company that offers career advancement and lucrative compensation, including bonuses and stock potential. We also offer what we call the “Booking Deal” with other competitive perks and benefits. IT also has monthly hackathons, training and attends/speaks at global conferences.
This position is open to worldwide candidates and in the case of relocation, we will assist you with a generous relocation package, ensuring a smooth transition to working and living in Amsterdam. We have successfully relocated 200+ IT professionals to Amsterdam in the last year!
Booking.com BV, part of the Priceline Group (NASDAQ: PCLN), is the global market leader in online hotel reservations. Established in 1996, www.booking.com is available in 42 languages, offers more than 500,000 hotels and accommodations in 200 countries, features 27+ million reviews written by guests after their stay, and attracts online visitors from both leisure and business markets around the globe. The Booking.com group has over 8,500 dedicated employees in 120+ offices and offers a dynamic work environment with a culture that is open, innovative and performance oriented. We believe our people and their passion is what makes us successful.