Software Engineering - IC - E
Booking.com · Bengaluru, Karnataka
Fullstack Engineer 1 - (2 to 5 years)
Who are we?
Booking Holdings is the world’s leading provider of online travel & related services, provided to
consumers and local partners in more than 220 countries and territories through six primary
consumer-facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, Rentalcars.com, KAYAK and OpenTable.
Collectively, Booking Holdings operates in more than 40 languages across Europe, North America,
South America, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and Africa. The mission of Booking Holdings
is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.
Booking Holdings Bangalore is a Center of Excellence based in Bangalore, India and a legal
entity of Booking Holdings Inc. The Center was created to support the increasing business
demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to
specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration
opportunities across all of the Booking Holdings brands and business units.
About the Role
As a Fullstack developer, you will be developing and optimizing applications, ensuring they are
scalable, flexible and high performing.You will be responsible for your work across the tech stack.
This role will be backend heavy and frontend working knowledge is a plus.
Primary responsibility -
● Implementation of technical solutions based on business requirements.
● Estimation of effort and impact of the items you work on.
● Show high quality of craft/work in what you deliver.
● Understanding the quality of automated tests is equally important as production code
and spending time refactoring both, when needed, to ensure ease of change enabling a
sustainable pace of development.
● Collaborate with colleagues in other job roles and teams to design, prioritise and
implement technical tasks.
● Depending on the nature of work, the deliverables can range from product features to
infrastructure automation, frameworks, tooling or services.
● Partner with Senior Engineers and your peers to build new capabilities & reuse existing
capabilities as much as possible.
● Own the design and delivery of software solutions based on business requirements,
deploying and monitoring code in production with some supervision
Role Qualifications And Requirements
● A minimum of 3 years of experience in full stack web application development.
● Proven expertise with one or more server-side programming languages, including (Ex.
Node.js, Java), preferably Node.js.
● Strong proficiency in modern front-end technologies and frameworks (e.g., JavaScript,
TypeScript, React, Vue.js, or Angular), preferably React.
● Extensive experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and
familiarity with NoSQL databases.
● Prior experience with implementing microservices, and microfrontends.
● Experience working on horizontal platform products is a significant advantage.
● Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like
Kubernetes is a plus.
● Working Knowledge of Cloud environments (AWS is preferred)
Skills we are looking for
Building software applications
● Is responsible to build software applications by using relevant development languages
and applying knowledge of systems, services and tools appropriate for the business
area
● Is responsible to write readable and reusable code by applying standard patterns and
using standard libraries
● Is responsible to refactor and simplify code by introducing design patterns when
necessary
● Is responsible to ensure the quality of the application by following standard testing
techniques and methods that adhere to the test strategy
● Is responsible to maintain data security, integrity and quality by effectively following
company standards and best practices
End to End System Ownership
● Has sufficient knowledge to own a service end to end by actively monitoring application
health and performance, setting and monitoring relevant metrics and act accordingly
when violated
● Has sufficient knowledge to reduce business continuity risks and bus factor by applying
state-of-the-art practices and tools, and writing the appropriate documentation such as
runbooks and OpDocs
● Has sufficient knowledge to reduce risk and obtain customer feedback by using
continuous delivery and experimentation frameworks
● Has sufficient knowledge to independently manage an application or service by working
through deployment and operations in production
Technical Incident Management
● Is responsible to address and resolve live production issues by mitigating the customer
impact within SLA
● Is responsible to improve the overall reliability of systems by producing long term
solutions through root cause analysis
● Is responsible to keep track of incidents by contributing to postmortem processes and
logging live issues
Architectural Guidance
● Has basic knowledge to advise product teams towards a technical solution that meets
the functional, nonfunctional & architectural requirements by challenging the rationale
for an application design and providing context in the wider architectural landscape
● Has basic knowledge to set a clear direction for a technical capability by evaluating and
aligning the target architecture improvements, reframing architectural designs and
decisions for varied stakeholder
Software Systems Design
● Has sufficient knowledge to evaluate possible architecture solutions by taking into
account cost, business requirements, technology requirements and emerging
technologies
● Has sufficient knowledge to describe the implications of changing an existing system or
adding a new system to a specific area, by having a broad, high-level understanding of
the infrastructure and architecture of our systems
● Has sufficient knowledge to help grow the business and/or accelerate software
development by applying engineering techniques (e.g. prototyping, spiking and vendor
evaluation) and standards
● Has sufficient knowledge to meet business needs by designing solutions that meet
current requirements and are adaptable for future enhancements
Critical Thinking
● Is responsible to systematically identify patterns and underlying issues in complex
situations, and to find solutions by applying logical and analytical thinking.
● Is responsible to constructively evaluate and develop ideas, plans and solutions by
reviewing them, objectively taking into account external knowledge, initiating 'SMART'
improvements and articulating their rationale.
Continuous Quality and Process Improvement
● Has sufficient knowledge to identify opportunities for process, system and structural
improvements (i.e performance gains) by examining and evaluating current process
flows, methods and standards.
● Has sufficient knowledge to design and implement relevant improvements by defining
adapted/new process flows, standards, and practices that enable business
performance.
Effective Communication
● Is responsible to deliver clear, well-structured, and meaningful information to a target
audience by using suitable communication mediums and language tailored to the
audience
● Is responsible to achieve mutually agreeable solutions by staying adaptable,
communicating ideas in clear coherent language and practicing active listening
● Is responsible to ask relevant (follow-up) questions to properly engage with the speaker
and really understand what they are saying, by applying listening and reflection
techniques
Key Skills
Fullstack Engineer 1 - (2 to 5 years)
Who are we?
Booking Holdings is the world’s leading provider of online travel & related services, provided to
consumers and local partners in more than 220 countries and territories through six primary
consumer-facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, Rentalcars.com, KAYAK and OpenTable.
Collectively, Booking Holdings operates in more than 40 languages across Europe, North America,
South America, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and Africa. The mission of Booking Holdings
is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.
Booking Holdings Bangalore is a Center of Excellence based in Bangalore, India and a legal
entity of Booking Holdings Inc. The Center was created to support the increasing business
demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to
specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration
opportunities across all of the Booking Holdings brands and business units.
About the Role
As a Fullstack developer, you will be developing and optimizing applications, ensuring they are
scalable, flexible and high performing.You will be responsible for your work across the tech stack.
This role will be backend heavy and frontend working knowledge is a plus.
Primary responsibility -
● Implementation of technical solutions based on business requirements.
● Estimation of effort and impact of the items you work on.
● Show high quality of craft/work in what you deliver.
● Understanding the quality of automated tests is equally important as production code
and spending time refactoring both, when needed, to ensure ease of change enabling a
sustainable pace of development.
● Collaborate with colleagues in other job roles and teams to design, prioritise and
implement technical tasks.
● Depending on the nature of work, the deliverables can range from product features to
infrastructure automation, frameworks, tooling or services.
● Partner with Senior Engineers and your peers to build new capabilities & reuse existing
capabilities as much as possible.
● Own the design and delivery of software solutions based on business requirements,
deploying and monitoring code in production with some supervision
Role Qualifications And Requirements
● A minimum of 3 years of experience in full stack web application development.
● Proven expertise with one or more server-side programming languages, including (Ex.
Node.js, Java), preferably Node.js.
● Strong proficiency in modern front-end technologies and frameworks (e.g., JavaScript,
TypeScript, React, Vue.js, or Angular), preferably React.
● Extensive experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and
familiarity with NoSQL databases.
● Prior experience with implementing microservices, and microfrontends.
● Experience working on horizontal platform products is a significant advantage.
● Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like
Kubernetes is a plus.
● Working Knowledge of Cloud environments (AWS is preferred)
Skills we are looking for
Building software applications
● Is responsible to build software applications by using relevant development languages
and applying knowledge of systems, services and tools appropriate for the business
area
● Is responsible to write readable and reusable code by applying standard patterns and
using standard libraries
● Is responsible to refactor and simplify code by introducing design patterns when
necessary
● Is responsible to ensure the quality of the application by following standard testing
techniques and methods that adhere to the test strategy
● Is responsible to maintain data security, integrity and quality by effectively following
company standards and best practices
End to End System Ownership
● Has sufficient knowledge to own a service end to end by actively monitoring application
health and performance, setting and monitoring relevant metrics and act accordingly
when violated
● Has sufficient knowledge to reduce business continuity risks and bus factor by applying
state-of-the-art practices and tools, and writing the appropriate documentation such as
runbooks and OpDocs
● Has sufficient knowledge to reduce risk and obtain customer feedback by using
continuous delivery and experimentation frameworks
● Has sufficient knowledge to independently manage an application or service by working
through deployment and operations in production
Technical Incident Management
● Is responsible to address and resolve live production issues by mitigating the customer
impact within SLA
● Is responsible to improve the overall reliability of systems by producing long term
solutions through root cause analysis
● Is responsible to keep track of incidents by contributing to postmortem processes and
logging live issues
Architectural Guidance
● Has basic knowledge to advise product teams towards a technical solution that meets
the functional, nonfunctional & architectural requirements by challenging the rationale
for an application design and providing context in the wider architectural landscape
● Has basic knowledge to set a clear direction for a technical capability by evaluating and
aligning the target architecture improvements, reframing architectural designs and
decisions for varied stakeholder
Software Systems Design
● Has sufficient knowledge to evaluate possible architecture solutions by taking into
account cost, business requirements, technology requirements and emerging
technologies
● Has sufficient knowledge to describe the implications of changing an existing system or
adding a new system to a specific area, by having a broad, high-level understanding of
the infrastructure and architecture of our systems
● Has sufficient knowledge to help grow the business and/or accelerate software
development by applying engineering techniques (e.g. prototyping, spiking and vendor
evaluation) and standards
● Has sufficient knowledge to meet business needs by designing solutions that meet
current requirements and are adaptable for future enhancements
Critical Thinking
● Is responsible to systematically identify patterns and underlying issues in complex
situations, and to find solutions by applying logical and analytical thinking.
● Is responsible to constructively evaluate and develop ideas, plans and solutions by
reviewing them, objectively taking into account external knowledge, initiating 'SMART'
improvements and articulating their rationale.
Continuous Quality and Process Improvement
● Has sufficient knowledge to identify opportunities for process, system and structural
improvements (i.e performance gains) by examining and evaluating current process
flows, methods and standards.
● Has sufficient knowledge to design and implement relevant improvements by defining
adapted/new process flows, standards, and practices that enable business
performance.
Effective Communication
● Is responsible to deliver clear, well-structured, and meaningful information to a target
audience by using suitable communication mediums and language tailored to the
audience
● Is responsible to achieve mutually agreeable solutions by staying adaptable,
communicating ideas in clear coherent language and practicing active listening
● Is responsible to ask relevant (follow-up) questions to properly engage with the speaker
and really understand what they are saying, by applying listening and reflection
techniques
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.