Senior Engineering Manager

At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. But our company is more than datasets, and lines of code. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place, the excitement of the next morning, the friends you make, the journeys you take, the sights you see, and the food you sample. Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

FinTech is an ever-changing, complex and extremely exciting industry. To accomplish Booking.com’s mission, we need to offer a frictionless payment experience to our guests and partners. The FinTech business unit is in charge of creating best in class payment experiences for bookers and merchants, and helps internal clients grow their businesses.

As a Senior Engineering Manager your role is to enable your team, its growth and success. You can hold your own in a technical argument, but you know getting out of the way is often the best option. You get things done via influence, not authority. You unlock the creativity of your team and inspire them to build the best for our customers. You work closely with your product counterparts to ensure we are always working towards what’s most important for our customers. And you take full end to end responsibility for your area.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Engineering Manager with strong experience building highly reliable back end services . We are looking for an advocate of Engineering leadership and technical quality. A background in FinTech would certainly be helpful. You will work closely with Product, Stakeholders in Finance and your back end teams to support and guide solution design, architectural direction, regulatory compliance and data quality.

This is an advanced engineering role on the intersection of business and technology; requiring knowledge of building highly scalable and reliable services as well as a strong ability to connect engineering with business concerns.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead, mentor and inspire a group of highly experienced engineers
• Drive innovation through strategic prioritisation and technical subject matter expertise
• Partner with the senior leaders in Payments in shaping the product vision, creating the delivery roadmaps, and managing their execution across a complex set of internal and external dependencies.
• Influence senior stakeholders across the business to reach and maintain strategic and tactical alignment
• Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating
• Guide software development delivery, quality and practices within your team
• Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team and foster a great culture. Advocate of engineering leadership and technical quality.
• Ensure data is available to have real time insight into service quality and to drive decision making.
• Ensure delivery by tracking team health metrics and KPIs, monitoring roadmap progress, identifying dependencies and and removing blockers.

What You’ll Bring

• Technical subject matter expertise and thorough hands-on experience building back end services (8+ years working in technology).
• Experience in shaping and leading a software engineering function across multiple products or business areas (3+ years as a senior manager)
• Natural leader and communicator who is collaborative and builds great relationships.
• Experience of leading a team directly as well as through others
• A knack for connecting the dots and collaborating with various stakeholders to prioritize what maximizes business value
• Experience in the Fintech domain would definitely be an advantage.

Our ideal candidate

• Is a servant leader and experienced mentor that is passionate about people.
• Is sensitive to the concerns of their stakeholders, whether they are global chain partners, single property owners, payment operations specialists or internal accountants..
• Can navigate a complex technical environment.
• Has experience working in a regulated environment.

In Return, We’ll Provide

• Living and working in Amsterdam, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe
• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travellers worldwide
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit
• Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions
• Technical, behavioural and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks of working in the home city of Booking.com

Booking.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.