Fullstack Software Engineer

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 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.

Our brand new FinTech business unit – with teams in Amsterdam, Bangalore, London and Shanghai – develops new products and drives innovation to help us continue removing financial friction from the travel process. That makes buying and selling travel-related products and services simpler for both travelers and partners.

Join our Finance Partner Services track, where we’re dedicated to delivering a frictionless financial experience for our partners. As a Full Stack Software Engineer in the Messaging as a Service (MaaS) team, you’ll be instrumental in developing innovative solutions that empower our partners with immediate answers to their questions. Your work will involve cutting-edge technologies like LLMs and Agentic AI to triage messages, create intelligent auto-populated responses, and efficiently route complex inquiries to human experts. On the frontend, you’ll revolutionize how partners connect with us, ensuring our expertise is readily available.

Role Description

As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the design and delivery of software solutions, deploying, and monitoring code in production. You should have a keen interest in modern web applications, APIs, and their relation. You integrate them in a clean and structured manner through planning and collaboration with your colleagues. You are eager to learn, improve your skills and help our platform evolve.

Key Job Responsibilities And Duties

• Design and implement end-to-end product features in collaboration with UX Designers, Data scientists, and other Developers.

• Evaluating customer needs and coming up with ideal solutions for it, assessing different languages (Perl, Java, Javascript, Python, etc), architecture and risks.

• Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems, with end-to-end ownership by monitoring and adjusting SLIs and SLOs.

• Continuously learn and apply modern development methodologies and tools

• Deploy and maintain software in production

• Proactively propose improvement ideas to reduce technical debt and increase business impact of your team

Qualifications & Skills

• 3+ years of software development experience working with at least one server-side programming language (Java, Python, Scala, C++, etc), Javascript, HTML, CSS and one of the modern frameworks (React, Vue, Angular etc.) using modern tools and methodologies.

• Demonstrable experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.

• Proven experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.

• Experience with Typescript and GraphQL is a plus.

• Experience with Camunda 8 is a plus.

• Experience with AWS is a plus.

• Previous experience with distributed systems.

• Proven experience in designing and delivering complex frontend applications.

• Deep understanding of cross-browser and cross-platform development (feature compatibility, responsive design, graceful degradation, progressive enhancement).

• Proven experience in delivering and maintaining software in production with basic understanding of scalability, security and reliability aspects.

• Proven Experience in resolving incidents in production..

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

• 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

• Need more flexibility in your work week? We are happy to consider part-time, and reduced working week opportunities* (min. 32 hours per week, subject to terms and conditions)

Inclusion At Booking.Com

Inclusion have 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:

• Let’s go places together: How we Hire

• If applicable This role does not come with relocation assistance

Pre-Employment Screening