Engineering Manager - Billing Infrastructure

About Booking.com

Booking.com B.V. owns and operates Booking.com, an online accommodations booking site. The company offers reservations for various hotels for leisure and business markets worldwide. It offers booking services in the areas of apartments, resorts, villas, hostels, bed and breakfast destinations, guesthouse destinations, and others.

Position

This is a fantastic opportunity for a strong hands-on Engineering Manager. This role is primarily to manage, coach and develop an engineering team ensuring the development of both the individual and team as a whole are in line with organizational objectives and direction. You should be a role model, technically strong to help your team develop and be able to be hands-on when needed. The Engineering Manager manages all activities of engineering in scope through the direction of activities, designing new products and modifying existing designs to ensure that deliverables are met on time and with acceptable quality. The role requires analyzing technology and human talent needs together with market demand to plan projects to ensure resilience in line with current demand and future ambition. Finally, the Engineering Manager will closely collaborate with other leaders, production, key stakeholders and finance teams to determine engineering feasibility, cost effectiveness, scalability and time-to-market for new and existing products.

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People Leadership

• Directly manage, inspire and motivate engineers in a cross-functional team
• Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborative
• Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team
• Assess individual and team performance, recognize and promote excellent performance, and address under-performance
• Foster a great culture that innovates, work together as a team, partner with other Booking.com com teams and roles and celebrates unified success
• Respect the Booking.com values and use them as a guide to the way we work

Technology, Craft & Delivery

• Mastery in technology leadership including shaping ways of working
• Engineering delivery, quality and practices within own team including delivery management
• Delivery of the wider engineering strategic objectives
• Embed agile ways of working and values within the organization
• Get into the technical detail where required to coach, support and mentor the team
• Engineering craftsmanship including coaching and mentoring the team
• Adhere to the default principles for architecture, quality and non-functional requirements
• Contribute to the evolution of best practices across the department
• Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations
• Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies and be able to share learning’s and apply these to a variety of projects when needed

Architecture & Product Strategy

• Thought partner for product to define, shape and deliver the roadmap
• Build new products, processes and operational plans
• Negotiate on the strategic importance of own product roadmap features
• Drive innovation in the team
• Own the architecture across the team

Your qualification

• 7+ years of experience as a software development engineer
• At least 3 years of experience leading and managing a team of engineers in a fast-paced and complex environment
• Experience with micro-services, Java Spring Boot and Kafka is needed
• Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems and batch processing pipelines with focus on data integrity
• Experience with unit, integration and end-to-end testing paradigms
• Experience in defining and upholding SLOs/KPIs and conducting architecture reviews for systems
• Experience with R&C, SOx or compliance is preferred
• Past experience in FinTech is a plus
• Experience in working on products that impact a large customer base and have a company wide impact
• You have strong technical skills (Coding & System design), you can get hands-on with your team if needed
• Strong people management skills and experience in dealing with complex people issues
• Excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management experience, strong business and technical vision
• You have driven successful technical, business and people related initiatives that improved productivity, performance and quality

What we offer

• An opportunity to contribute to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
• Be part of a truly international fast paced environment and performance driven culture
• Various opportunities to grow technically and personally via side projects, hackathons, conferences and your involvement in the community
• Full relocation support for you and your family (if the case) to move to Amsterdam - one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe. We have fine-tuned this process by successfully relocating 300+ Technology professionals to Amsterdam in the last year alone!
• Headquarters located in one of the most dynamic cities in Europe: Amsterdam
• Performance-based company that offers 29 vacation days, career advancement, and lucrative compensation, including bonuses and stock potential
• Discount on Booking.com accommodations with the “Booking Deal” including other perks and benefits
• Company-sponsored family and social activities to help our employees become integrated with each other and Dutch culture 
• Diverse and creative colleagues from every corner of the world
• With over 70 different nationalities within the technology department alone, you will be able to absorb new skills and grow your career in a multicultural environment