Desired Skills and Experience
- Identify and grow talents, provide feedback and look after people’s personal development
- Assess individuals performance, recognize and promote excellent performance, and address under-performance
- Facilitate an agile team of engineers (small team of 4 – 6 people)
- Focus on supporting the business priorities, be pragmatic about technology choices
- Promote and encourage technical, business and people related initiatives that improve productivity, performance, and quality
- Design, develop and implement software that improves the stability, scalability, availability and latency of the Booking.com products in collaboration with the team
- Contribute to Booking.com’s growth through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts
- Experience in managing an engineering team, with at least one year in a leadership role
- Practical experience in software development (one or more programming languages)
- Hands-on expertise in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems. Experience as an SRE is a plus
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and influencing skills
- Independent, pragmatic and proactive work attitude
- Experience working on large scale e-commerce websites is a plus
- Living and working in Amsterdam, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe
- Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work
- Working in a fast-paced and performance-driven culture
- Career opportunities via Online and On-the-job training, Conferences and active community participation
- Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks of working in the home city of Booking.com