What you'll be doing:
- Lead design of new features in a highly distributed, large scale, global platform that has a direct impact on the business, and on the experience of Booking.com's customers and partners.
- Serve as a tech lead on projects involving multiple teams across and beyond the business unit.
- Hands-on develop proof of concepts and evaluate new technologies.
- Implement technical strategic decisions in cross functional teams.
- Work closely with product owners and engineers to design, implement, and continually improve highly scalable, resilient applications and services.
- Provide technical guidance to other team members.
- Maintain a current understanding of industry and technology trends.
- Communicate and enforce technical standards.
- Advise product and engineering leadership on achieving strategic business objectives.
- Help align architectural direction between business units.
- Support and advise on hiring for senior engineering roles.
- Strengthen the engineering community and coach senior engineers in their further development.

What you'll bring:




- 12+ years of software development experience, with a minimum of 4 years in a principal, lead or architect role.
- Experience mentoring and growing (senior) developers, not through reporting lines, but through thorough and convincing communication is preferred.
- Excellent communication skills. Demonstrated ability to use data to influence and drive decisions.
- Strong customer focus and passion for doing the right thing for the customer.
- Deep experience developing and operating business critical systems.
- Proven hands-on experience in designing, building, improving and operating large scale, high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems in a fast growing environment.
- Expert knowledge of computer science, with solid competencies in SOA, migration and cloud.
- Ability to design and solve complex business problems by writing simple, effective code.
- Eager to work in mult

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Booking Holdings
📍 Bengaluru