Senior Software Engineer - Marketplace
Booking.com · Bengaluru, Karnataka
Key Responsibilities and Duties
- Lead the development and maintenance of backend APIs that powers experimentation products
- Evolve GraphQL gateway that unifies the interface to interact with experimentation data.
- Integrate multiple APIs into one single GraphQL gateway.
- Solve complex technical problems to improve our development process, increase our efficiency and unlock new business opportunities.
- Take initiative to improve existing solutions, challenge decisions, propose augmented alternatives and address technical debt.
- Lead the technical discussion around software architecture and guide the team to make decisions that are agile, incremental and beneficial for the long term
- Responsible to refactor and simplify code by introducing design patterns when necessary and guide more junior members of the team in this topic
- Coach, guide and improve the overall performance of more junior colleagues
The job requirements
- Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience in software engineering development with extensive knowledge of at least one backend language like Perl, Java, NodeJS (JavaScript) or Python
- 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
- Extensive knowledge and experience in domain based systems design including API design, management, documentation and governance
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and cooperate with people at all levels
- Experience with mentoring, coaching and training team members, formal and informal
- Experience driving successful technical, business and people related initiatives that improved productivity, performance and quality
- Demonstrable experience with MySQL or similar relational databases
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a plus
- Practical experience with GraphQL and APIs development is a plus
- Experience working with teams located in different timezones is a plus
- Experience with experimentation, statistics and A/B testing is a plus
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