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Senior Backend Developer in Amsterdam

Booking

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Full-Time
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Job Description

 At Booking.com we combine the best traits of a start-up with the resources of planet Earth’s  #1 accommodation website. We are working towards creating the ultimate travel experience, building and improving great products for both travelers and the accommodation partners.

We are not afraid to experiment, think big or aim high!

Based in the beautiful city of Amsterdam, our technology department is over 1500 strong.

We believe that diversity makes us stronger – with over 60 different nationalities in the technology department alone, you will be able to absorb new skills and develop your career in a multicultural environment.

As well as working independently, you will also be responsible for making technical decisions within a team and across teams/sub departments. Our development strategy is agile and we work in small Scrum teams of 5-7. We do several code rollouts every day, are data-driven and do extensive A/B testing on both user and partner facing platforms.

B.responsible

  • Combine hands on coding with working on impactful project(s) and supporting other team members,
  • Solve business problems, work cross-functionally and lead initiatives to improve our development process and business opportunities within Booking.com,
  • Take initiative to address the larger technical needs of the product you work on and always keep the customer at the center of everything you do,
    Contribute to the growth of Booking.com through recruitment efforts and proactively share your knowledge to help your colleagues grow,
  • Represent Booking.com values, both within the company and in the external community,
  • Advocate for a collaborative working environment – turn “my ideas” into “our ideas”.

B.skilled

  • You are a humble and thought leader, you lead by example and gain your teammates respect through your actions and not your title,
  • You have strong programming skills and experience with 2+ server-side programming languages,
  • You have 10+ years of experience as a Software Developer, you’ve worked with web applications, distributed systems and product(s) that impact millions of customers,
  • You are an excellent communicator and you are able to influence and cooperate with people at all levels,
  • You have driven successful technical, business and people related initiatives that improved productivity, performance and quality,
  • You have a ‘can do’ attitude and you act proactively and not reactively,
  • It would be great if you have prior experience with mentoring, coaching and training team members.

B.offered

  • Living and working in Amsterdam, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe
  • Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real time impact of your work on millions of travelers 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, behavioral 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 of working in the home city of Booking.com

 

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 300+ Technology professionals to Amsterdam in the last year!


 

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