Romania - Junior Software Engineer Intern (6 months contract)

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 five-primary consumer facing brands: , Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.

The Junior Software Engineer - Intern is an internship engineering position focused on delivering and refactoring production-ready code under supervision. The role is designed for individuals early in their software engineering careers, working within a team and guided by more experienced engineers. 

The primary focus is on developing technical skills, learning best practices, and contributing to the team's software delivery.

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

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

These duties are performed within a team, under supervision, and with guidance from more experienced engineers. The focus is on developing technical skills, learning best practices, and contributing to the team's software delivery.

Level of Autonomy

Delivers and refactors production-ready code under supervision

Sphere of Influence

Works within the scope of their team, guided and coached on particular tasks.

Technical Impact:

Focuses on growing their own craft skills while learning how to leverage software design for higher impact

Building software applications

Writes readable and reusable code using standard patterns and libraries.

Refactors and simplifies code as needed.

Ensures code quality by following standard testing techniques and methods.

Maintains data security, integrity, and quality by adhering to company standards and best practices.

Is aware of test automation, engineering principles (KISS, SOLID, DRY), build tools, project dependencies, technical documentation, test best practices (e.g., TDD or Outside In), data storage, caching, and standards and guidelines.

Gains experience with writing and refactoring code.

End to End System Ownership

Is aware of deploying code to production, application monitoring, infrastructure costs, observability (SLO and error budgets), and data stewardship.

Software Systems Design

Is aware of API design (REST, GraphQL, events), API versioning, system documentation (C4/UML), and domain-based systems design.

Technical Incident Management

Is aware of root cause analysis, postmortem processes, incident resolution, and updating of runbooks and operational documentation.

Critical Thinking

Has common knowledge and awareness of concepts and techniques, applying them in standard tasks and seeking support in other scenarios.

Continuous Quality and Process Improvement

Is aware of automated testing methods and standards, performance optimization, code quality, and agile development methodologies  

Effective Communication

Delivers clear, well-structured, and meaningful information to a target audience using suitable communication mediums and language.

Practices active listening and asks relevant follow-up questions to engage with others and understand their perspectives

Role Qualifications and Requirements

Experience with at least one server-side programming language (Java preferred).

Awareness of cloud environments (AWS, GCP) is a plus.

Familiarity with containerization (Kubernetes, Docker) is a plus.

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.