Software Developer

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

As a Software Developer, you are responsible for the development, performance, and scaling of our public website as well as internal systems, which includes using: Perl (5.14), DBI, Mason, Moose, Sereal, Plack, nginx, Javascript, MySQL, Memcached, Redis, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, git, and CentOS Linux.

Important aspects of the job include:

• Rapidly develop next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems 
• Solve issues with the site and internal systems, prioritizing based on customer impact
• Act as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Collaborate with the team, Team Leaders and Product Owners to prioritize projects

Your qualification

• 4 years of hardcore development experience with more than one programming language
• Experience of developing in and contributing to open source
• Experience with HTTP and server-side technologies (web servers, database servers)
• Ability to work independently in small teams
• Preferably a university degree in Mathematics or Software Engineering

What we offer

We are a performance-based company that offers career advancement and lucrative compensation, including bonuses and stock potential. We also offer what we call the “Booking Deal” with other competitive perks and benefits. The Technology department has monthly hackathons, training and attends/speaks at global conferences.

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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