Intelligent Automation Developer (For independent contractors)
Key Skills
Job Description
We are looking for an enthusiastic GENAI Engineer professional to join the ranks of our Intelligent Automation Team to help us meet increasing demand from the business, support our rapidly growing portfolio of automation 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 enterpreneurship. Responsible Naturally oriented towards improving efficiencies. Seeking accountability from themselves and others. Compassionate collaborator with a deep sense of comradery. Willingness to be cross-functional, pick up new skills and cover new ground with/for the team. Striving for continuous improvement and high quality in their work. Strong work ethic and high spirit. Keen to understand and solve real world problems through technology. Skilled Hands-On developing & deploying GenAI + Agentic Apps at scale Designing AI Apps (React/Next.js, TypeScript) and backend (Python/FastAPI, Node.js, Kafka, Kubernetes) to build E2E production grade Apps Vectors, Chunking, Embedding Strategies for GenAI RAG Apps Knowledge-graph-grounded AI answering techniques (Manage Hallucinations) Manage Evals, drifts for Agentic Applications Langchain, Langraph or similar Agentic frameworks Built a lot of Skills (Skill.md), Agents Specs in Harness Engineering Experience building Custom MCPs, use Out-of-the-box MCPs Data Engineering: Advanced SQL, Snowflake, REST APIs Infrastructure: AWS (RDS, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda) Deploy GenAI Apps with Docker, Kubernetes (Advanced), Git/GitHub Observability / Monitoring : Arize, Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Prometheus Claude code, cursor, codex or similar IDEs Proficiency in core Python libraries Ability to design, implement, and maintain DAGs, operators, sensors, and connections; manage retries, SLAs, and backfills Experience with Secrets & Authorizations - VAULT, PASSPORT, Okta Exposure to Terraform code for deploying AWS (good to have)
Core Responsibilities
Develop and deploy production-grade generative AI and agentic applications, including full-stack systems, retrieval-augmented generation solutions, and knowledge-graph-grounded answering techniques. Support the company-wide automation portfolio by improving efficiency, monitoring application quality and drift, and collaborating across business areas.
Requirements
The role calls for hands-on experience building and deploying generative AI and agentic applications at scale, with skills across Python, modern web development, cloud infrastructure, data engineering, and Kubernetes-based deployment. Candidates should also be familiar with agent frameworks, evaluation and observability tools, workflow orchestration, and secrets and authorization systems.
About Booking.com
Industry: Software Development
Company size: 10,001+ employees
A career at Booking.com is all about the journey, helping you explore new challenges in a place where you can be your best self. With plenty of exciting twists, turns and opportunities along the way. We’ve always been pioneers, on a mission to shape the future of travel through cutting edge technology, to make it easier for everyone to enjoy amazing experiences wherever they go. Under a desert sky, or in the heart of a bustling city. Discovering the perfect hideaway, or the perfect paella. When you join us, you’ll be part of a community where taking a different path and trying something new is celebrated and supported. And where making a difference counts. We’re determined to make the world of travel more sustainable, more accessible, and more inclusive, to create a positive impact on a global scale. That’s why we’re always looking for people who search for better solutions, the ones eager to stray off the beaten path to find new ways of doing things. Because at Booking.com it’s more than a job, it’s a journey we’re on together.