Romania - Java Backend Engineer with Big Data Expertise

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and 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 our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world's leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through six-primary consumer facing brands: , Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, OpenTable and

Account Security

Do you want to play a pivotal role in protecting user accounts against evolving threats? Are you eager to harness the full potential of data analysis to stay ahead of the curve?

If your answer is yes, then join us in building a complex big data system that will ingest and enrich all necessary data streams across the security platform

Our work will directly impact end users, contributing to the protection of their accounts, and ensuring a positive experience on

Role description

You will be involved in building the software applications to support our high-performance requests in terms of data availability and consistency, response time, and traffic patterns. On top of standard programming languages, you will get the chance to work with the latest tech stack: Snowflake, Airflow, Spark, Kafka.

This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Play a key role in building and maintaining distributed software applications to provide tools for manual and automated security incidents investigations and remediation, enrich our analysis and machine learning models.
• Focus on innovation to address complex technical issues associated with distributed systems.
• Own the solution end to end, from design and implementation to deployment and monitoring in production.
• Cultivate a collaborative environment by serving as a mentor and coach for the team members.
• Make us better as an organization by communicating your improvement ideas and proposals to partners beyond your team.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Computer Science (or related field) degree and 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Proficiency in Java. Plus for Python (optional), Perl is nice to have.
• Experience with crafting and building scalable and flexible distributed systems.
• Strong algorithm and problem-solving skills
• Experience working with cloud environments (AWS, GCP) is a plus.
• Experience working with Kubernetes and Docker will be considered a plus.
• Excellent English communication (written and spoken) skills.

Benefits & Perks

• Contributing to a high-scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package 
• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

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.