Senior Software Engineer – Backend

PRICELINE CAREERS; Hinoba-an; Hybrid; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Priceline is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in the Payments team to build and evolve systems that authorize, capture, and settle transactions across multiple methods and geographies. This hybrid role supports two days in-office and offers opportunities to work across global payment platforms.

You will mentor developers, design high-performance distributed architectures, and drive real-time data flows for accurate reporting and budgeting decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree 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.
• Interest in mentoring and influencing best practices.
• Strong grasp of SQL compositions for querying and analysis.
• Proficiency with Spring Frameworks, Web Services and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Drive mission-critical projects with direct impact on Priceline's business.
• Design resilient, fault-tolerant payment architectures for real-time decisions, risk integrations, refunds, reconciliation, and reporting.
• Collaborate with cross-functional agile team to deliver new product objectives.
• Architect and implement core, high-performance distributed systems processing millions of tracking events daily.
• Use cutting-edge technologies (Kafka, NoSQL) to achieve sub-10ms response times for attribution APIs at scale.
• Lead security and durability models for data ingestion, mentoring the team on scalable engineering practices.
• Provide real-time data flow for accurate campaign reporting and budget allocation.
• Understand codebase and business requirements quickly to implement changes.
• Influence team development efforts and communicate findings to stakeholders.

Skills

Core Java

Spring Framework

SQL

Web Services

REST APIs

Kafka

NoSQL

Mentoring

Team Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

NoSQL

Job description

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.

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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