Software Engineer II

Please note, this is a 12 month assignment for freelancers.

A Software Engineer II owns the execution of technical elements in the Booking.com tech stack, products, and processes.

They are responsible for implementing technical solutions based on business requirements, estimating effort and impact, and demonstrating a high quality of craft in their deliveries.

A Software Engineer II understands that the quality of test automation is as important as production code and invests time in refactoring both to ensure ease of change, enabling a sustainable pace of development.

Software Engineers II work collaboratively with colleagues in other roles to design, prioritize, and implement technical tasks.

This role would be in CS AI track, successful candidates will work and collaborate with CS software engineers to deliver AI features that support both customers and CS agents.

Responsibilities:

Building Software Applications

• Is responsible for building software applications by using relevant development languages and applying knowledge of systems, services, and tools appropriate for the business area.

• Is responsible for writing readable and reusable code by applying standard patterns and using standard libraries.

• Is responsible for refactoring and simplifying code by introducing design patterns when necessary.

• Is responsible for ensuring the quality of the application by following standard testing techniques and methods that adhere to the test strategy.

• Is responsible for maintaining data security, integrity, and quality by effectively following company standards and best practices.

End-to-End System Ownership

• Has sufficient knowledge to own a service end-to-end by actively monitoring application health and performance, setting and monitoring relevant metrics, and acting accordingly when violated.

• Has sufficient knowledge to reduce business continuity risks and bus factors by applying state-of-the-art practices and tools, and writing appropriate documentation such as runbooks and OpDocs.

• Has sufficient knowledge to reduce risk and obtain customer feedback by using continuous delivery and experimentation frameworks.

• Has sufficient knowledge to independently manage an application or service by working through deployment and operations in production.

Technical Incident Management

• Is responsible for addressing and resolving live production issues by mitigating customer impact within SLA.

• Is responsible for improving the overall reliability of systems by producing long-term solutions through root cause analysis.

• Is responsible for keeping track of incidents by contributing to postmortem processes and logging live issues.

Architectural Guidance

• Has basic knowledge to advise product teams towards a technical solution that meets the functional, non-functional, and architectural requirements by challenging the rationale for an application design and providing context in the wider architectural landscape.

• Has basic knowledge to set a clear direction for a technical capability by evaluating and aligning target architecture improvements, reframing architectural designs, and decisions for varied stakeholders.

Software Systems Design

• Has sufficient knowledge to evaluate possible architecture solutions by taking into account cost, business requirements, technology requirements, and emerging technologies.

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