Engineering Manager - Intelligent Automation

About us: At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. 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 can empower everyone to experience the world.

FinTech business unit - with teams in Amsterdam, Bangalore, London and Shanghai - develops new products and drives innovation to help us continue removing financial friction from the travel process. That makes buying and selling travel-related products and services simpler for both travelers and partners.

FinTech business unit - with teams in Amsterdam, Bangalore, London and Shanghai - develops new products and drives innovation to help us continue removing financial friction from the travel process. That makes buying and selling travel-related products and services simpler for both travelers and partners.

We are looking for an enthusiastic hyper-automation full stack Intelligent Automation professional to drive our increasing demand from the business, support our rapidly growing portfolio and make an impact across every business area at Booking.com. We look at our team as a service provider for the entire company, operating with a large degree of autonomy and entrepreneurship

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

People Leadership

• Inspire and motivate multiple cross technology tracks
• Excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management experience
• Good commercial awareness and technical vision
• You are a humble and thoughtful technology leader, you lead by example
• Directly manage engineers across global sites : AMS & BLR
• Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborative
• Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team
• Foster a great culture that innovates, work together as a team, partner with other Booking.com teams and roles and celebrates unified success
• Respect the Booking.com values and use them as a guide to the way we work

Technology, Craft & Delivery

• Engineering delivery, quality and practices within own team
• Delivery of the wider engineering strategic objectives
• Embed agile ways of working and company values within the team
• Ability to get into the technical detail (where required) to coach, support and mentor the team
• Adhere to the default principles for architecture, quality and non-functional requirements
• Contribute to the evolution of best practices across the department
• Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations
• Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies to be able to share learnings and apply these to a variety of projects when needed

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• 10+ years of experience developing hyper-automation solutions
• CS, Engineering or similar university background is a MUST HAVE
• GenAI hands-on knowledge is MUST HAVE
• Understanding of ML Ops & Observability to monitor & maintain GenAI solutions
• Professional experience with MCPs, APIs and Web Services
• Understanding of ML & Advanced ML Concepts : Experience with Modelling
• Automation Architecture& Infrastructure to drive best-practices & governance
• Proficiency in core Python libraries like pandas,NumPy, Sklearn, NLTK, Keras
• Exposure to AI/ML libraries in python - Tensorflow,PyTorch, etc
• Working knowledge of NLP : Semantic search, sentiment analysis,NERs
• Understanding of AWS : RDS, EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda,Sagemaker, VPC
• Experience with VAULT, PASSPORT, Gitlab for Config Management
• Exposure to IAC : Terraform, Puppet, Chocolatey
• Experience working in a scrum/agile environment

Benefits & Perks - Global Impact, Personal Relevance

Booking.com's Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave
• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)
• Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit
• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers 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, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Need more flexibility in your work week? We are happy to consider part-time, and reduced working week opportunities* (min. 32 hours per week, subject to terms and conditions)

Inclusion at Booking.com:

Inclusion have been a core part of our company culture since day one. This ongoing journey starts with our very own employees, who represent over 140 nationalities and a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations.

Take it from our Chief People Officer, Paulo Pisano: "At Booking.com, the diversity of our people doesn't just build an outstanding workplace, it also creates a better and more inclusive travel experience for everyone. Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. It's a place where you can make your mark and have a real impact in travel and tech."

We ensure that colleagues with disabilities are provided the adjustments and tools they need to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Application Process:

• Let's go places together: How we Hire
• This role does not come with relocation assistance

Pre-Employment Screening

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

Client-provided location(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands

Job ID: booking-28162

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-02-12T18:37:28