This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: Two days in-office.
Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place.
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer/Architect to join our innovative team focused on the complex domain of flight technologies. This role is pivotal in leading the architecture, design, and delivery of cutting-edge platforms and features. You will be joining a small but powerful team of architects, guiding product initiatives and creating a tech roadmap for business verticals. The role gives you the opportunity to contribute to evolving technical standards and explore new technologies while solving business-critical problems.
Why this job’s a big deal:
Collaborate with a small, tight knit team of cutting edge, coding thought leaders who set the strategy for our customer interface. Self-starters are encouraged to explore, fail fast and build new things. Find places that lack ownership and own them. Collaboration, ownership and innovation are our primary tenets.
You work with the business leaders in defining the product roadmap and come up with innovative solutions to grow the future of travel. We design and develop our back end systems and REST APIs that serve hundreds of millions of searches a day, collecting and parsing data across thousands of partners to get the best deals for our customers.
Key Responsibilities:
● Spearhead solutioning and design for critical initiatives for building platforms or product features.
● Lead architecture, design and solutioning efforts, recommend what the best solutions are; evolve consensus and influence key stakeholders towards decision-making.
● Innovate continuously, experiment, iterate and deliver on new product initiatives.
Explore new technology, frameworks and keep abreast of industry trends.
● Lead, mentor, and guide engineers in technology, design and architecture best practices.
● Architect, engineer, and drive the evolution of low latency, high throughput microservices, data pipelines; with continuous integration, automated testing and
observability.
● Build a deep domain expertise in the flight business, and understand business context to effectively solve business problems.
● Contribute towards firm-wide initiatives to drive technology adoption, mentorship, knowledge sharing and training via Architect and engineering guilds.
Who you are:
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Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field.
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10+ years of experience in software engineering, design and implementation.
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Deep expertise with Core Java or similar object-oriented or functional programming languages.
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Hands-on experience with Spring Framework, Reactive Java, Web Services and REST APIs.
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Experience in building Microservices using SpringBoot or similar framework, Kubernetes (GKE preferable), and Docker.
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Experience with development and deployment on at least one Cloud service (GCP/AWS) for compute, storage, networking, security, identity and access management, API management, observability.
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Deep expertise in Design and Architecture of complex, highly scalable and performance driven applications. Must have clear understanding of application of object-oriented and microservice design patterns, domain-driven design, E-R modeling, API design using OpenAPI standards.
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Hands-on experience with implementation of Observability standards using tools such as APM (Datadog/New Relic, Splunk, etc), Incident Management (PagerDuty or OpsGenie or similar.
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Exposure to Big Data solutions such as Cassandra, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, ElasticSearch and Solr. Familiarity with one BI solution (Tableau, ThoughtSpot or similar) is an advantage.
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Mentored, influenced and coached developers on engineering standards, design, solutioning.
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Driven cross-functional initiatives for knowledge sharing or technology standard evolution, evaluation of new tools, frameworks, services and infrastructure.
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Participated in Industry events or conferences.
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Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust.
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The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics is essential.
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Who we are
WE ARE PRICELINE.
Our success as one of the biggest players in online travel is all thanks to our incredible, dedicated team of talented employees. Priceliners are focused on being the best travel deal makers in the world, motivated by our passion to help everyone experience the moments that matter most in their lives. Whether it’s a dream vacation, your cousin’s graduation, or your best friend’s wedding - we make travel affordable and accessible to our customers.
Our culture is unique and inspiring (that’s what our employees tell us). We’re a grown-up, startup. We deliver the excitement of a new venture, without the struggles and chaos that can come with a business that hasn’t stabilized.
We’re on the cutting edge of innovative technologies. We keep the customer at the center of all that we do. Our ability to meet their needs relies on the strength of a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.
Priceline is part of the Booking Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKNG) family of companies, a highly profitable global online travel company with a market capitalization of over $80 billion. Our sister companies include Booking.com, BookingGo, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable.
If you want to be part of something truly special, check us out!
Flexible work at Priceline
Priceline is following a hybrid working model, which includes two days onsite as determined by you and your manager (ideally selecting among Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday). On the remaining days, you can choose to be remote or in the office.
To be the best travel dealmakers in the world, it’s important we have a workforce that reflects the diverse customers and communities we serve. We are committed to cultivating a culture where all employees have the freedom to bring their individual perspectives, life experiences, and passion to work.
Priceline is a proud equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate the unique lenses through which our employees see the world. We’d love you to join us and add to our rich mix!
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What We Do
At Priceline, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. [NASDAQ: BKNG], we believe every trip is a big deal to our customers. Whether it’s a much-needed getaway, wedding, reunion, graduation, or rooting on a favorite team—those are the moments that nobody should miss out on.
Our mission? Be the best travel dealmakers in the world. We provide our customers with smart and easy ways to access the very best deals available on hotel rooms, flights, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises, so they can be there for the moments that matter the most to them.
We do that by welcoming people who are at the top of their game, who want to learn and grow with others and who take their work seriously (but not themselves). We’re building a diverse and uniquely talented team to make sure our customers can be there for all those {big deal} moments. Come join us!
