The Job

Booking.com Insurance is the easiest way to protect your trip and travel with peace of mind. As part of our Connected Trip vision, Booking.com has ambitious growth plans for the insurance business as it looks to develop a global footprint of insurance product offerings across the group. Through innovation, industry sector knowledge and clear customer focus, the team’s challenge is to substantially enhance the Insurance customer experience. Working in collaboration with leading industry partners, our insurance products are designed to give customers assurance they have the protection they need to allow them to relax and enjoy the trip - great value cover backed by a first class experience should they need to make a claim.

As the Backend Developer in the Travel Insurance Team located in Bangalore, you will be working on java and other backend technologies to interface apps with insurance platforms and deliver Insurance mobile experience in Booking.com’s Android/iOS app .You will be working closely with native mobile teams within Booking’s app frameworks to make it easier for the 8.5M people who open our apps everyday to purchase travel insurance. With a talented team of UX designers, app developers, product managers and data analysts, you will create a seamless mobile app customer experience to increase user engagement and bookings.

B.responsible

• Develop and maintain APIs and capabilities for web services that power experimentation products

• Solve technical problems to improve our development process, increase our efficiency and unlock new business opportunities.

• Take initiative to improve existing solutions, challenge decisions, propose augmented alternatives and address technical debt.

• Contribute to technical discussion around software architecture and help the team to make decisions that are agile, incremental and beneficial for the long term

• Refactor and simplify code by introducing design patterns when necessary and guide more junior members of the team in this topic

• Systematically identify patterns and underlying issues in complex situations, and to find solutions by applying logical and analytical thinking

B.skilled

• Minimum of 5 years of software development with Java

• Proven experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL/Cassandra or similar relational databases

• Experience working with any cloud technologies (AWS/Google Cloud)

• Practical experience with Rest APIs development

• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing paradigms.

• Experience with defining and upholding SLOs/KPIs 

• Experience with building highly scalable distributed systems and batch processing pipelines is an advantage.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

• Experience with experimentation, statistics and A/B testing is a plus

• Experience with Graph QL & Kafka queues is a plus

• Preferably a university degree in Software Engineering or related field

• Excellent communication; written and spoken

• Experience in the insurance industry is a plus.

• Experience working with teams located in different time zones is a plus