Priceline.com - Principal Software Engineer - Backend Development (10-15 yrs)

Job Description :

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model : Two days in-office.

Our Technology team is the backbone of our company : constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you're in the right place.

Why this job's a big deal :

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer/Architect to join our innovative team focused on the complex domain of flight technologies. This role is pivotal in leading the architecture, design, and delivery of cutting-edge platforms and features. You will be joining a small but powerful team of architects, guiding product initiatives and creating a tech roadmap for business verticals. The role gives you the opportunity to contribute to evolving technical standards and explore new technologies while solving business-critical problems.

In this Job you will get to :

- Spearhead solutioning and design for critical initiatives for building platforms or product features.

- Lead architecture, design and solutioning efforts, recommend what the best solutions are; evolve consensus and influence key stakeholders towards decision-making.

- Innovate continuously, experiment, iterate and deliver on new product initiatives.

Explore new technology, frameworks and keep abreast of industry trends.

- Lead, mentor, and guide engineers in technology, design and architecture best practices.

- Architect, engineer, and drive the evolution of low latency, high throughput microservices, data pipelines; with continuous integration, automated testing and observability.

- Build a deep domain expertise in the flight business, and understand business context to effectively solve business problems.

- Contribute towards firm-wide initiatives to drive technology adoption, mentorship, knowledge sharing and training via Architect and engineering guilds.

Who you are :

- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field.

- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, design and implementation.

- Deep expertise with Core Java or similar object-oriented or functional programming languages.

- Hands-on experience with Spring Framework, Reactive Java, Web Services and REST APIs.

- Experience in building Microservices using SpringBoot or similar framework, Kubernetes (GKE preferable), and Docker.

- Experience with development and deployment on at least one Cloud service (GCP/AWS) for compute, storage, networking, security, identity and access management, API management, observability.

- Deep expertise in Design and Architecture of complex, highly scalable and performance driven applications.

- Must have clear understanding of application of object-oriented and microservice design patterns, domain-driven design, E-R modeling, API design using OpenAPI standards.

- Hands-on experience with implementation of Observability standards using tools such as APM (Datadog/New Relic, Splunk, etc), Incident Management (PagerDuty or OpsGenie or similar.

- Exposure to Big Data solutions such as Cassandra, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, ElasticSearch and Solr. Familiarity with one BI solution (Tableau, ThoughtSpot or similar) is an advantage.

- Mentored, influenced and coached developers on engineering standards, design, solutioning.

- Driven cross-functional initiatives for knowledge sharing or technology standard evolution, evaluation of new tools, frameworks, services and infrastructure.

- Participated in Industry events or conferences.

- Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline : Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust.

- The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it's a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics is essential.