Software Engineer II

At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core and innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We're the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you make. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the food you sample. Through our products, partners and people, we can empower everyone to experience the world.

About The Team

The opening is for the Content Intelligence Platform team in the Central Tech department. The team is responsible for delivering a robust platform that empowers teams within B.com to easily leverage ML enriched content at scale, with the focus on NLP and Vision capabilities.

What We Do

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance backend systems that support machine learning workflows.
• Identify bottlenecks in the backend systems to ensure optimal performance and scalability.
• Conduct thorough testing, monitoring of the system to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Select appropriate datasets and data representation methods
• Continuously explore and evaluate new approaches to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our machine learning infrastructure.
  

• Building software applications by using relevant development languages and applying knowledge of systems, services and tools appropriate for the business area
• Owning a service end to end by actively monitoring application health and performance, setting and monitoring relevant metrics and act accordingly when violated
• Identify and resolve live production issues by mitigating the customer impact within SLA
• Evaluating possible architecture solutions by taking into account cost, business requirements, technology requirements and emerging technologies
• Identifying opportunities for process, system and structural improvements (i.e. performance gains) by examining and evaluating current process flows, methods and standards
• Delivering clear, well-structured, and meaningful information to a target audience by using suitable communication mediums and language tailored to the audience
  

• Minimum of 3 years software development experience; using Java as a server side programming language. Java is a must have, other languages such as Python, Scala, C, C#, etc. are an advantage
• Previous experience with distributed systems, such as Hadoop
• Demonstrable experience with MySQL or similar relational databases
• Hands on experience of developing in and contributing to open source data technologies is an advantage
• Experience of working on products that impact a large customer base is an advantage
• Preferably a university degree in Mathematics or Software Engineering
• Excellent communication; written and spoken
  

• Headquarters located in one of the most dynamic and cosmopolitan cities in Europe: Amsterdam.</l