About Booking.com

The Company
Booking.com B.V., part of Priceline.com (Nasdaq:PCLN), owns and operates Booking.com™, one of the world's leading online hotel reservations agencies by room nights sold, attracting over 30 million unique visitors each month worldwide. As a result of the market leading growth, the Booking.com group of companies currently employs over 5 500 professionals in more than 115 offices to ensure the best possible online services and support.
Established in 1996, Booking.com B.V. guarantees the best prices for any type of property, ranging from small independent hotels to a five star luxury through Booking.com. The Booking.com website is available in 41 languages and offers over 359.000 hotels in 188 countries.
Our Vision
Through Booking.com, we are committed to offering an informative, user-friendly website with the best rates guaranteed. Our goal is to provide business and leisure travelers worldwide with a pleasant, efficient and cost-effective way to book hotel accommodations. Our multilingual customer service team and call centre provide dedicated assistance to all our customers.
The IT Team and our vision
At Booking.com the development work is done in-house. We have highly skilled Developers, Database Administrators, Unix Administrators, Web Designers, and Network Engineers working together to make our site user-friendly, responsive and commercially performing.
We value people over process, hiring highly skilled people and giving them the freedom, and responsibility, to do their job in the best possible way. IT members work directly with the business to ensure they are working on what is needed at that time and can respond quickly to changes in the environment.

Booking.com, a Perl success story
Booking.com is using the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl) stack. We use a wide range of features within these technologies, and build our own where needed, often submitting patches back to the open source community which supports us.
When Scrum isn't agile enough
After a trial using Scrum, Booking.com quickly realized that it simply wasn’t agile enough to keep up with our pace of change and development. This resulted in building our own software development methodology that allows us to keep our administrative overhead low and our efforts focused on what we’re supposed to do: develop great software to drive our business.