Android Software Engineer II - Flights

The Software Developer within the Flights business solves customer and partner pain points providing the best and most efficient technical solutions. We have a complex and distributed set of systems that provide end-to-end Flights experience from our provider sources’ availability towards the end Booking.com customer and its partners. We also have a mature and stable app that allows end users to reserve and manage their flights and bookings.

The team

You’ll be part of the Flights Apps Funnel team, where you’ll shape the core of our Android and iOS flight booking experience. From effortless search to seamless checkout, you’ll empower millions to find and book flights for their dream trips. This high-impact role directly influences thousands of daily bookings, making your work essential to our customers’ travel journeys., As an Android Software Engineer II, you will be building customer-focused and scalable native mobile experience in Booking.com’s Android app and be responsible for monitoring and addressing performance and security. You will work side-by-side with designers, product owners, copywriters and other developers to create new features, test your own ideas, and push changes live for billions of users. You will:

• You will be involved in the development of new features, collaborating with other native Android developers.

• You will collaborate with the rest of the Flights teams in order to create a seamless experience across mobile platforms.

• Ensure the utmost high quality of the Booking.com app in production, by monitoring crashes, firefighting incidents, solving complex bugs, etc, and leading incident investigation if necessary.

• Identify, foster, and proactively help colleagues grow professionally, taking a significant role in on-boarding new team members;

• Continuously improve services you own making them more performant, and utilising resources in the most optimised way;

• Ensure that the Flights Android products and new features are always kept up-to-date with the latest technology standards and department guidelines.

• Ensure that service-level-agreements for test coverage and quality are met by implementing tests and processes.

• Perform profiling to find bottlenecks and optimise performance, and ensure that performance metrics are set up and monitored for app health.

• Able to connect business and product goals to complex technical tasks.

• Solve issues prioritising based on customer impact.

• Collaborate with app developers, backend developers, product owners, and quality specialists, to constantly improve customer experience within the app platform.

• Contribute to Booking.com’s growth through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts.

We expect our developers to know the ins and outs of the Android framework and to deliver polished products that customers want to use. We need self-starters who are great at solving problems, initiate solutions and discussions and are not afraid of solving challenges due to our large scale.

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with Java and/or Kotlin and other languages.

• At least 1 year of this experience must be from working with the Android SDK.

• Self-motivated to explore new technologies, applications and environments.

• Excellent degree of communication skills – Being able to effectively communicate to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Excellent attention to detail.

• Self-starter, highly motivated, team-player.

• Fully comfortable working in English, both in writing and spoken.

Bonus points for

• Experience with Google Play Store & Apps Distribution Process.

• An approved Play Store app.

• Experience with server-driven UI framework development.

• Experience working with A/B testing.

• You have an intrinsic curiosity in technological innovations and you are always on top of the latest trends.

• Living and working in London, 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 on millions of travellers worldwide;

• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture;

• Opportunity to utilise technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit;

• Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions;

• Technical, behavioural and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation;

• Competitive compensation and benefits package.

Booking.com

11 Monument Street, London EC3R 8AF

Full-time, 11 Monument Street, London EC3R 8AF