Senior Software Engineer (Web Services/API)

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.

You are passionate about building complex, highly scalable software systems. You enjoy creating unconventional solutions to the most challenging business requirements. You’ve built a lot of software products, created platforms, worked with open-source products and have built big, distributed, API-driven systems. You’re as excited about solving really hard engineering problems that no one else has.You understand the challenges associated with operating a large-scale system in production, and your designs and implementations reflect that understanding.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related.
• 5+ years of experience in hands-on Software Development.
• Object-oriented design skills with a high degree of proficiency in JAVA programming language.
• Effectively mentor more junior team members, helping to maintain appropriate unit test coverage, code documentation,software structure and supportability.
• Knowledge of distributed systems architectures based on SOA
• Expertise in Spring framework, Web services and API development
• Strong knowledge in data structures and algorithms
• Familiarity with Agile development
• SQL with Oracle and/or MySQL databases

And most importantly - a passion to develop software that impacts lives and delivers!!

Preferred:

• Previous startup/e-commerce experience
• Exposure to Big Data solutions such as Cassandra, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Elastic Search and Solr
• Working experience on low latency systems/services