Senior Software Engineer – Backend

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:

Join a high-performing Agile team that’s shaping the next generation of travel technology. We continually experiment with new tools and architectures, engineering smarter, faster, and more scalable solutions to meet evolving business demands.
 

In this role, you’ll work on a mission-critical, high-volume platform that powers the very first mile of our measurement process. Your contributions will directly influence data quality, system reliability, and our ability to scale to millions of events per hour. You’ll help build resilient distributed systems that provide the foundation for every major marketing investment decision across the company.
 

In this role, you will get to:

• Drive mission-critical projects with direct impact on the evolution of Priceline's business.

• Innovate with a cross-functional agile team that continuously experiments, iterates, and delivers on new product objectives.

• Architect and implement the core, high-performance distributed systems that process millions of tracking events daily, directly ensuring the integrity and completeness of our foundational measurement data.

• Drive technical innovation by selecting and utilizing cutting-edge technologies (e.g., Kafka, NoSQL databases) to achieve sub-10ms response times for critical attribution APIs at massive scale.

• Serve as a technical leader, designing the security and durability models for our data ingestion layer and mentoring the team on modern, scalable engineering practices.

• Directly impact business decisions by providing the real-time data flow necessary for accurate campaign reporting and budget allocation across the organization.

• The ability to quickly apply your experience to understand our codebase, systems and business requirements to effectively make changes to our applications.

• Influencer and communicator on team development efforts. Influence what the best solutions are and communicate your findings to key business stakeholders.

Who you are: 

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field.

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering and development.

• Exceptional coding experience with Core Java or similar programming languages.

• An interest in being a mentor and influencing best practices with less experienced developers.

• Strong grasp of SQL compositions skills for composing queries and analysis.

• Confident with the utilization of Spring Frameworks,  Web Services and APIs.

• Experience with developing on Cloud, especially GCP.
  Experience in Microservices, Kubernetes (GKE preferable), and Dockers.
  Proven ability in Design and Architecture of complex, highly scalable and performance-driven applications.
  Experience working on JavaScript frameworks, Python is a plus

• 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.   

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