Senior Software Development Engineer

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

The Lodging Connectivity Organization at Expedia Group is seeking an experienced backend developer and a seasoned technologist with a passion for building robust, scalable, and high-performance applications that help millions of people plan their travels and create lifelong memories. Join us as we revolutionize the travel industry!

The Lodging Connectivity Organization at Expedia Group is at the forefront of innovation in the travel industry. We leverage our cutting-edge, in-house platform to seamlessly integrate with lodging partners worldwide, delivering exceptional travel experiences to millions of users annually. Through APIs, we enable travelers to access top-tier content, enjoy an immersive hotel shopping experience, and add convenient ancillaries to their journeys with ease.

We are part of the partner connectivity platform that serves as the backbone of Expedia’s business, powering an efficient two-way marketplace that bridges supply and demand. Leveraging diverse API integration that sources our platform with over 1M properties and generates more than 1M transactions per minute. Built with modern technologies like Java, Kotlin, Spring, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch or Redis, our ecosystem supports millions of travelers in finding the best travel products tailored to their needs.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and actively participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including the design, analysis, development, and deployment efforts for multiple enterprise applications projects to tackle sophisticated business problems

• Deconstruct large, sophisticated problems into manageable and achievable breakthroughs driving streamlined execution by the team

• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to peers and more junior engineers, helping them overcome obstacles and have growth opportunities

• Collaborate with EG leaders with vision to architect and build robust applications and thoughtfully choose relevant technologies to evolve EG travel platform

• Maintain, monitor and improve our solutions and systems with a focus on service excellence; apply industry standards and new technologies to improve efficiency, quality, and system performance

• Technologies we use: Java, Kotlin, Node.js, GraphQL, Dropwizard, Spring, Docker, Kafka, Cassandra, MongoDB, DataDog, Splunk, AWS cloud

Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent related professional experience.

• 8+ years of professional, post-college software development in object-oriented language

• Professional, post-college software development in object-oriented language

• A self-starter who is consistently looking to innovate and find ways to enhance our customers' experience, with ability to own solutions end to end

• Strong technical proficiency, capable of problem solving and applying critical thinking

• A deep understanding of software design principles, algorithms and data structures and commitment to technical excellence

• Strong communication skills and highly effective collaborator

• Able to articulate your ideas to teammates, peers, and leaders, providing details and supporting your ideas with data where applicable

• Incorporate others' input and feedback and strive to find common ground

• Enjoy and take pride in the work of your team. You focus on the team's success and have a strong desire to lead by example

• Experience building on cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) with sound architectural patterns and scalable, cost-efficient production quality systems

• Embrace change, always open to replacing what you built yesterday with something better today

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.

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