Senior Java Developer

Senior Software Developer (Java)

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?

Build the next exciting new product or feature that will ultimately help millions of people experience the world. Join in various Developer forums and be part of a company wide developer community affecting and driving web engineering decisions.

Our team of engineers, at all levels, work with the business leaders in defining the product roadmap and come up with innovative solutions to grow the future of travel. We design and develop our back end systems and REST APIs that serve hundreds of millions of searches a day, collecting and parsing data across thousands of partners to get the best deals for our customers.

In this role you will get to:

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

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

• Showcase fluency and development skills of Core Java or similar programming languages

• Lead, mentor, and guide less experienced developers in best practices

• Apply your programming skills towards building low latency and high throughput transactional services with continuous integration and automation testing

• Implement SQL composition skills that collects and queries data for investigation and analysis in real time from our applications

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

• 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

• 5+ 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 influence 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 API’s

• Established and proven expertise with server side Javascript and Node.js, an Influencer of the use of Git and Gitflow

• Experience with developing on Cloud, especially GCP and AWS

• Experience in Microservices, Kubernetes (GKE preferable), and Dockers

• Proven ability in Design and Architecture of complex, highly scalable and performance driven applications

• Experience working in the Flights industry is desirable

• Demonstrated history of living the values important to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust. Unquestionable Integrity and Ethics

Flexible work at Priceline

When we return to the office we will be in a fully flex mode, meaning you decide when to come to the office when it makes sense for you to do so - no minimum number of days in the office. Until then we are all working from home and will return to our flex mode when it is safe to do so.

Diversity and Inclusion are a Big Deal!

To be the best travel dealmakers in the world, it’s important we have a workforce that reflects the diverse customers and communities we serve. We are committed to cultivating a culture where all employees have the freedom to bring their individual perspectives, life experiences, and values-driven passion to work.

Priceline is a proud equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate the unique lenses through which our employees see the world. We’d love you to join us and add to our rich mix!