Senior Software Engineer

Priceline gives travelers the inside track to travel deals and discounts. With their exclusive deal search technology, priceline aims to deliver more ways to save on airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises than anyone else.

Priceline is looking for a software engineer to join a highly skilled and dynamic team that builds technology solutions for the Airlines and Vacation Packages product. She/he must have great OO design skills, a deep command of various java related technologies and be a true team player with an excellent work ethic. The engineer will support and write code for a variety of applications that constitute the middle tier and back-end of the Airlines and Vacation Packages product.

* Design, code and implement software solutions as required by the business * Maintain and support various JAVA, JSP, XML and JSON based applications * Identify areas of improvement within current applications and lead the effort to implement changes * Successfully coordinate software deploys that have a dependency across different teams * Lead integration projects with external affiliates * Assist internal and external teams resolve technical issues * Establish excellent rapport and communications with peers

* Expert level knowledge and substantial work experience in server side JAVA/J2EE related technologies * Solid command of SQL and experience using Oracle and MySql relational databases * Experience with Eclipse and SVN/Maven * Excellent communication skills and a team-player attitude are a must * Sharp analytical abilities and proven OO design skills * Knowledge of best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and deployment * Must be a self-starter and able to work with minimal supervision * For Software Engineer: Bachelor's Degree and 2 years experience, or Master's Degree and 1 year experience * For Senior Software Engineer: Bachelor's Degree and 5 years experience, or Master's Degree and 2 years experience * Experience with Java concurrency and multi-threading * Experience with Spring MVC, PL/SQL a plus