Senior Software Engineer I

A Senior Software Engineer I owns the end-to-end execution of technical elements in the Booking.com tech stack, products and processes. They are responsible for the implementation of complex technical solutions based on business requirements, they can accurately estimate or forecast the effort and impact of the items they work on, and show a high quality of craft in what they deliver.

Senior Software Engineers I are expected to work together with colleagues in other job roles to design, prioritise and implement complex technical tasks. Senior Software Engineers I are expected to coach and mentor more junior engineers and be a thought leader in their team ensuring best practices are being implemented. Because the required technical skills and commercial knowledge can vary from one business unit to another, a Senior Software Engineers I can own multiple types of work from product features to infrastructure automation, frameworks, tooling or services.

Key Responsibilities

• Building software applicationsIs responsible to build software applications by using relevant development languages and applying knowledge of systems, services and tools appropriate for the business area and guide more junior members of the team in this topic.Is responsible to write readable and reusable code by applying standard patterns and using standard libraries and guide more junior members of the team in this topic.Is responsible to refactor and simplify code by introducing design patterns when necessary and guide more junior members of the team in this topic.Is responsible to ensure the quality of the application by following standard testing techniques and methods that adhere to the test strategy and guide more junior members of the team in this topic.Is responsible to maintain data security, integrity and quality by effectively following company standards and best practices and guide more junior members of the team in this topic.

  
  

• End to End System OwnershipIs responsible to own a service end to end by actively monitoring application health and performance, setting and monitoring relevant metrics and act accordingly when violatedIs responsible to reduce business continuity risks and bus factor by applying state-of-the-art practices and tools, and writing the appropriate documentation such as runbooks and OpDocsIs responsible to reduce risk and obtain customer feedback by using continuous delivery and experimentation frameworksIs responsible to independently manage an application or service by working through deployment and operations in production

  
  

• Technical Incident ManagementIs responsible to address and resolve live production issues by mitigating the customer impact within SLAIs responsible to improve the overall reliability of systems by producing long term solutions through root cause analysisIs responsible to keep track of incidents by contributing to postmortem processes and logging live issues

  
  

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