Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
Why Join Us?
To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Introduction To Team
We're the Insurtech team at Expedia Group, and we're on a mission to redefine how traveler’s peace of mind experience during their journeys. Whether it's trip protection, flight cancellations, or medical emergencies abroad, our goal is to deliver seamless, reliable, and intelligent insurance experiences across Expedia's suite of brands (like Expedia.com, Vrbo, Hotels.com, and more).We work closely with different insurance suppliers to onboard their products into our systems and make them available to customers during various booking journeys — such as during checkout, post-purchase, and even through trip management pages. Our team ensures the right protection is offered at the right time, making travel safer and more confident for millions of users.
In This Role, You Will
- Design new challenging and complex features with your team from design to operations that continue to delight Travelers.
- Lead, coordinate, and collaborate on multiple concurrent and complex cross-organizational initiatives
- Partner with business, product and cross functional technology teams to define how our technology drives traveler success and business outcomes. Advise on technical limitations of design and provide alternate solutions.
- Technical responsibility of codebase, own infrastructure and operations and drive your team’s quality throughout design, code, tests and deployment. Advocate for operational excellence (such as establishing metrics and programming for resiliency and scalability).
- Research, recommend and implement new architectural designs, tools, technologies for process improvements and quality work.
- Interact with other domains and recommend ways to interact with them to deliver Traveler value through designs and APIs.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to your team.
- Communicate project risks and difficulties to your technical leadership and ensure code and program documentation are healthy.
Experience And Qualifications
- Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- 8+ years of experience in Software Development with object-oriented languages (Java or Kotlin experience strongly preferred).
- 5+ years of experience working on high performance, high throughput, highly available and scalable services in cloud platforms.
- Experience in driving technical design end to end and handle multi-quarter large scale cloud infrastructure applications.
- Demonstrated proficiency in most areas of the professional function, and in-depth specialization in some Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely
- Contributions to engineering community through a blog post, open-source and tech talks etc.
- Ability to independently drive features from inception through to completion and production deployment
- Ability to understand highly complex systems and identify business problems, design solutions that are easily testable and observable, justify technology choices to stakeholders, and execute across multiple teams and functional areas.
- Has a strong understanding of testing, monitoring, and deployment tools and technologies and uses this knowledge to identify and advocate for project quality via testing, monitoring and alerting at the project level.
- Proven ability to mentor engineers, guide others into designing high quality software, and establish and drive software operations metrics and practices (monitoring, alerts, etc.) at your team’s level.
Accommodation requests
If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group’s Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or any other messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official website to find and apply for job openings at Expedia Group is careers.expediagroup.com/jobs.Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.
