Senior Software Engineer - Backend

About the role

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: Two days in-office

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

Payments is one of the critical pillars of Priceline’s business, directly influencing revenue, customer trust, and partner relationships.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Payments team, you will play a key role in building and evolving the systems that authorize, capture, and settle transactions seamlessly across multiple payment methods, currencies, and geographies. Your work will directly impact conversion rates, reduce transaction failures, and ensure compliance with global financial and regulatory standards.

This role is critical in enabling innovation in areas like tokenization, fraud prevention, and alternative payment methods, while maintaining the highest standards of security and data integrity.

In this role, you will get to

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

• You will help design resilient, fault tolerant payment architectures that handle real time decisioning, risk integrations, and downstream financial workflows such as refunds, reconciliation, and reporting.

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

• Architect and implement the core, high-performance distributed systems that process millions of tracking events daily, directly ensuring the integrity and completeness of our foundational measurement data.

• Drive technical innovation by selecting and utilizing cutting-edge technologies (e.g., Kafka, NoSQL databases) to achieve sub-10ms response times for critical attribution APIs at massive scale.

• Serve as a technical leader, designing the security and durability models for our data ingestion layer and mentoring the team on modern, scalable engineering practices.

• Directly impact business decisions by providing the real-time data flow necessary for accurate campaign reporting and budget allocation across the organization.

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

• 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.

• 6+ 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 influencing 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 APIs.

• Experience with developing on Cloud, especially GCP.

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

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

Experience working on JavaScript frameworks, Python is a plus

• Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust.

• The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics is essential.

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Who We Are

WE ARE PRICELINE.

Our success as one of the biggest players in online travel is all thanks to our incredible, dedicated team of talented employees. Priceliners are focused on being the best travel deal makers in the world, motivated by our passion to help everyone experience the moments that matter most in their lives. Whether it’s a dream vacation, your cousin’s graduation, or your best friend’s wedding - we make travel affordable and accessible to our customers.

Our culture is unique and inspiring (that’s what our employees tell us). We’re a grown-up, startup. We deliver the excitement of a new venture, without the struggles and chaos that can come with a business that hasn’t stabilized.

Priceline is part of the Booking Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKNG) family of companies, a highly profitable global online travel company with a market capitalization of over $80 billion. Our sister companies include Booking.com, BookingGo, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable.

If you want to be part of something truly special, check us out!

Flexible work at Priceline

Priceline is following a hybrid working model, which includes two days onsite as determined by you and your manager (ideally selecting among Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday). On the remaining days, you can choose to be remote or in the office.

Perks & Benefits at Priceline

Our benefits are designed to support your health, wellbeing, and life inside and outside of work. Eligible Priceliners have access to:

Health & wellness coverage including medical, dental, vision, and mental health resources

Generous time off including PTO, holidays, a company-wide Priceline Pause reset week, and paid volunteer days

Work/life support including the ability to work up to 4 weeks per year from anywhere, parental leave, dependent care and family support resources, Summer Fridays, and office perks like stocked kitchens and catered meals (varies by location)

Financial security programs such as retirement plans with company contributions, life and disability coverage, and tax-advantaged accounts

Signature travel perks including employee-only discounts on hotels and flights, VIP deals, and Big Deal Bucks credits

Additional perks & discounts like travel and partner discounts, tuition support, legal support, and pet benefits

A people-first culture with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), social events, recognition programs, and service awards that help you connect, grow, and celebrate together

Specific benefits and programs vary by location.

To be the best travel dealmakers in the world, we believe our team should reflect the broad range of 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 passion to work.

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