Principal Software Engineer

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.

Key Responsibilities:
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.

Technology Leadership skills:

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.

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Our success as one of the biggest players in online travel is all thanks to our incredible, dedicated team of talented employees. Priceliners are focused on being the best travel deal makers in the world, motivated by our passion to help everyone experience the moments that matter most in their lives. Whether it s a dream vacation, your cousin s graduation, or your best friend s wedding - we make travel affordable and accessible to our customers.

Our culture is unique and inspiring (that s what our employees tell us). We re a grown-up, startup. We deliver the excitement of a new venture, without the struggles and chaos that can come with a business that hasn t stabilized.

We re on the cutting edge of innovative technologies. We keep the customer at the center of all that we do. Our ability to meet their needs relies on the strength of a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

Priceline is part of the Booking Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKNG) family of companies, a highly profitable global online travel company with a market capitalization of over $80 billion. Our sister companies include Booking.com, BookingGo, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable.

If you want to be part of something truly special, check us out!

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