- Inspire and motivate multiple cross-functional teams
- Directly manage engineers
- Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating
- Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team
- Foster a great culture that innovates, works together as a team, partners with other Booking.com teams and roles, and celebrates unified success
- Respect the Booking.com values and use them as a guide to the way we work
Technology, Craft & Delivery:
- Engineering planning and delivery, technical quality and use of best practices within own team
- Delivery of wider engineering strategic objectives
- Embed agile ways of working and company values within the team
- Ability to get into the technical detail (where required) to coach, support and mentor the team
- Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations
- Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies to be able to share learnings and apply these to a variety of projects when needed
- Contribute to the evolution of best practices across the department
Architecture & Product Strategy:
- Define, shape and deliver the roadmap
- Build new products, processes and operational plans
- Negotiate on the strategic importance of own product roadmap features
- Drive innovation in the team
- Own the architecture across the team and drive architectural alignment
What you'll bring:
- Strong people management skills and experience
- Excellent communicator with robust stakeholder management experience, good commercial awareness and technical vision
- You are a humble and thoughtful technology leader, you lead by example and gain your teammates respect through actions, not the title
- 6+ years of experience in software development
- At least 3 years of experience leading and managing a team of engineers in a fast-paced and complex environment
- Solid coding & system design skills with the ability to get hands-on with your team if needed
- Experience with Java, Kafka, Cassandra and/or MySQL is a plus
- Deep experience with unit, integration and end-to-end testing paradigms
- Experience in working on products with a large customer base and company-wide impact
- Experience in designing and architecting APIs, dealing with high traffic and security concerns
- Past experience with Payments or FinTech and working in a regulated environment is a plus
- Strong analytical skills and data-driven mindset